Failure? What is that?

Thought I should share this with all the dreamers… it’s a quote by Apollinaire, the french poet: “Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy”. This quote helps me every time i think about all the steps taken backwards in my journey towards my goals.

If you look in retrospect, everything ‘negative’ that happened, pushed you towards your true place to be. So how can there be any failures? The problem arises when we have pre-conceived notions about the way we want things to work out. I realize that even though I ‘consider’ myself a fatalist, I often need to keep reminding myself that when pursuing my dreams, I have to stop assuming that things have to work the way I ‘think’ they should. Once I get over that hurdle, I finally begin to see failures as disguised stepping stones (at the risk of sounding clichéd).