By Zayithwa Fabiano
Failure, missing the mark, making a mistake, getting it wrong, whichever way you describe it, is a part of life. It’s a part of the journey. Failure is viewed negatively. Failure is feared. Perhaps it’s because we don’t understand failure; perhaps we don’t know how to fail.
I have been a victim of failure countless times as all of you. I have only recently realized that there is a correct way to fail and a wrong way to fail. In a way one can fail at failure, as absurd as that may sound. I have been fearful of failure for years. I can’t pinpoint an exact time in my life when I began fearing failureGrowing up we were taught in school to work hard to avoid failure. We were ashamed whenever we failed. We may have faced various consequences when we failed. People deemed by society as failures are labeled as such and used as examples of what not to do and what not to become.