“WE CAN’T ALL, AND SOME OF US DON’T. THAT’S ALL THERE IS TO IT ”. Eeyore

Life for most of us lies in accepting a series of second best, a compromise between what we desire and what is possible. If we seek nothing but perfection and see second best as failure, we deny ourselves all feeling of achievement.

 Trying is admirable, not dismissing something as impossible is an achievement, we just have to recognise that and give ourselves praise for endeavour, for self belief and for not giving up before we began. 

Failure is an event, its not a definition of character, and when things don’t turn out just as we hoped, it is important to understand that if we always aim for perfection in everything we do, we run the risk of never achieving anything.

Life is a struggle and at times we share it with triumph or disaster. The secret is to boast about trying rather than completing, to try, and finish anywhere, is a success, failure is never to have tried at all.  

George Burns said “I would rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate”. So don’t mistake perfection for success, success can be about trying to achieve something you really believe in, whilst accepting that the end result may not be perfect. Celebrate how far you got in trying to get there and in doing so, you will come to realise that a feeling of achievement can never be second best.

“Fear less and hope more, all good things are yours”.  Swedish proverb.

Title quote by A.A.Milne