Nationals 08
So this is what abject failure tastes like.
And while I have done all I could,
And lived up to my expectations,
I still won’t be able to face myself, because I know that my best wasn’t good enough.
And that stings.
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July 12th, 2008 at 1:30 am
sometimes all you have to answer to is yourself.
July 12th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
Quote from Theodore Roosevelt,
“It is not the critic who counts,
not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,
whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood;
who strives valiantly;
who errs and comes short again and again;
who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause;
who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement;
and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
And remember who was it that said these wise words:
“From one shooter to another – process, not results. If I have given my best, if I had acquitted myself well, if I have done all I could, then I have won. My best is not in gold, not in wins, not in paper. My best is in my spirit, my work, my dreams. Livestrong.”
Failure maybe painful,but as long as we get back up on our feet as a better person, nothing else really matters (:
Keep the faith and strive on.