A few weeks into a job, I came across a situation that was very foreign to me, verbal abuse. I don’t remember exactly what the task was, but my boss repeatedly told me that I had failed.
“This task is so easy that a third grader could do this.”
Then pointing out the window, “Do you see the Fedex person walking by? This is so easy that they could do this.”
Any sense of college optimism I had jumped out the window in that moment. Sadly, I began to let small repeated moments like those define who I am. Lies from the very pit of Hell itself.
Past failure, if we let it, can quickly become a part of our identity.
Failure is okay. I think that we have to grant ourselves the slack to fail from time-to-time. As long as we are learning from those failures, we are golden. Lies can only be exposed by truth. It is okay to fail because you will.
JohnnyBGamer 