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myLot reputation of 92/100. littlefranciscan (4288)   ranked 315 out of 26,068 in life10 months ago

Do you think that just because a person failed at something they set out to do..makes them a bad person..?

Have you ever had plans to do something at a point in your life and little by little the plans were undone for you?

Do you think it was your fault or that God allowed it to happen so that you could what He wanted you to do?

 
 
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book1962 (9501) response was accepted on 11/17/2007.
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1. hellsangel (67)   ranked 5,137 out of 26,068 in life   10 months ago

I don't think that failure equals being bad or even failing. I once failed at something that was dear to me. It was something I worked at for years, and it didn't work out. I considered myself a failure despite my best efforts. After some years I realized that what I considered a great failure was my greatest accomplishment.

I don't think I was at fault. I think I was doing exactly what God wanted me to do.


myLot reputation of 92/100. littlefranciscan (4288)   ranked 315 out of 26,068 in life  10 months ago

Thanks for your nice post..that is how I feel..now..about a certain point in my life..at the time ..I felt the opposite of how I feel now..and I think part of it is because many who were close to me pointed their fingers and made fun of this difficult time..

I accepted their ways as par for the course..but it's natural for others to pass judgement on others not knowing how deep already the pain is before they add the salt to the wound:)


hellsangel (67)   ranked 5,137 out of 26,068 in life  10 months ago

I am sorry to hear that you have experienced such a difficult time, but also happy for you. For me, it took the pain of death of a major part of me for me to feel a sort of resurrection, or new life that I didn't think possible.


myLot reputation of 92/100. littlefranciscan (4288)   ranked 315 out of 26,068 in life  10 months ago

At the time ..it was maybe more difficult..but as I see it now..it was a grace..I really believe ..all things are a grace. I also believe that "unless the grain of wheat falls unto the ground and dies it remains but a single grain; but if it dies it bears much fruit"

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2. myLot reputation of 94/100. LittleMel (4659)   ranked 491 out of 26,068 in life   10 months ago

If I looked back, most plans I made were not working out. It wasn't God, it was people who did not want me to be happy and be successful. But I kept going and then my time came. I left them and since then my life is a lot better.
They said everything blossoms in time. I still don't think failures are God's work, unless these failures will save your life or something. Sometimes we are just not prepared and so we failed.
Bad person fails like everyone else, but failure doesn't make a good person bad. We just have to try again.


myLot reputation of 92/100. littlefranciscan (4288)   ranked 315 out of 26,068 in life  10 months ago

Yes..try and try again..that is what Our Lord would have us do..Isn't it something how once we have come through the storms..we can look back and see how good it was for us to have passed through it..but when we are being tossed here and there..we wonder weather we will remain afloat or sink..Good thing we know who the Captain of our ship is:)

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3. myLot reputation of 97/100. CurlyRed (2409)   ranked 219 out of 26,068 in life   10 months ago

No one has failed until they give up. They have simply learned another way not to do something. Look at Edison.

We learn more from our mistakes than from anything else.

Anyone who tries to make another peron feel bad about failing is a small person indeed. I think that sometimes people who don't think well of themselves, look for opportunities to make others feel small.

Perhaps pitying them would help.. Pitying a monster makes the monster seem like a very pathetic creature.


myLot reputation of 92/100. littlefranciscan (4288)   ranked 315 out of 26,068 in life  10 months ago

You are exactly right..such people are to be pitied..Afterall, why would they assume the position of pointing a finger unless they themselves thought they had the right. Pity for both parties, but the one who failed is the better person: as you say.

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4. myLot reputation of 97/100. book1962 (9501)   ranked 605 out of 26,068 in life   10 months ago

I have made plans and failed with them more times than you can count it. Like I dreamed of being an interpreter or translator when I was a kid and what do I do for a living now..... workers compensation.......

Or when I had finished studying I planned to go back to my mother and live there for no more than a year. I wanted to find a secure job and then have my own apartment as the generation gap was too big and she quarreled with me about the tiniest smallest things in daily life.

Guess what it took me 9 full years then till I was so secure financially and could rightly so assume I will keep the job I have, that I could move out with 30, yippieh.

I dont really think its peoples fault when these plans dont materialize and I dont think its Gods plan either. Its simply circumstances or the feeling that the thing you try to accomplish is too big for you now or it has lost the zeal or is not fascinating you any more and so you think you wont do it.


myLot reputation of 92/100. littlefranciscan (4288)   ranked 315 out of 26,068 in life  10 months ago

You are so right in all that you have written and I appreciate the insight that you have shared.. You know ...at a distance things look differently then when you are actually going through them;)

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