Failure

“Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.”

Failure is an interesting notion. I am currently experiencing failure right now, in multiple aspects of my life. Be it to my weight loss, my vow to give up alcohol until graduation, or my attempts to get off Swagger Island (more on this later), I have been failing spectacularly in all these different parts of my life, and more.

I'm trying to find out why.

My weight loss has come to a grinding halt. I can probably attribute this to my uneven diet, which also ties into my recent use of alcohol. Yesterday, I drank enough to become a very rude, very obnoxious drunk; I was, of course, promptly kicked out of the club that I was attending last night, and I was also treated to a fantastic hangover this morning as well. Finally, Swagger Island is a nickname for any and all interactions I have with the opposite sex; I think I've been awarded far too many negative points in the past week than is humanely possible, but I find that time and again, I find ways to outdo myself.

Yes, I have failed. Yes, I will continue to fail. The question is, then, do I learn from it, or do I continue to do nothing about it?