Faith Over Failure

There’s no such thing as “failure”. If you don’t succeed at first, call it version 1.0.

They usually ask me, how can I stand still though I fell a lot of times? Simple. Life goes on. And everyday, I remind myself that “failure” doesn’t exist in the mind of a “determined” person. And once you’re with a thing you really love, no matter what, you’ll pursue reaching it, nobody can destroy you and your courageous prowess. When you fall, learn to stand and continue. We’re born to take a lot of chances and opportunities in life, grab them and treat them as something like doors of an elevator which will open to take you to the right floor at the perfect moment with the best people in your life. If it opened in the wrong floor, give it a try. And if it opened in the wrong place again, try again. There are people sometimes that will leave your doors when they’ve found their right floor too. But life isn’t like a board game, and losing someone doesn’t mean “starting over”, more like, “continuing without”. Look forward to your expected results, and so you’ll be inspired to try much harder, be patient. Just try and try, God will give you the things you deserve. And if you work harder to achieve a thing, then no doubts, you really are deserving to get that. And so God will find a way for you to enter the gates of a palace filled with your longed “success”.

You know what’s the secret in trying? Of being brave to take risks though you were once fallen? Of jumping from the top of the tower to a hill? Of reviving and restoring malfunctioned relationships? It’s your FAITH. It takes faith to go through an unsure path, it takes faith to see the vague clearly, and it takes faith to believe in your doubts. You have to bear in your mind and believe that one day, in God’s perfect time, success will lurk upon your corner. It’s maybe hard for someone to try again once he failed the first time, if he’ll let his fear swallow his determination. But remember that you don’t own all the hard things in life, recall that there are people out there who are willing to try walking and climbing a mountain top but don’t have feet to do that. 

And you, so long as you have your chance, never stop trying, hope for the very best and reach for your ever wondering goals and dreams. You just need two things anyway; to believe in yourself and have faith in God.

Draw your own “Period”

By yours truly

One day, a little leaf fell from a tree, swayed with the blow of the teasing wind till’ it reached the ground, withered. End of story.

When you’ve reached a certain point in your life, where you think, giving up is the only choice, remember why did you start. Recall your goals, and how determined you were to reach them, to catch them. Close your eyes. Make youself reflect everything when you’re still on your starting line in a “time lapse” set-up, brisk. What do you see? Someone who paints himself with smile, someone surrounds with positivity, who treats every problems as little things and one who sees every challenges as something to learn from. Listen. Listen to youself. You’re whispering something– “Don’t quit.” And someday you’ll look back and glad you didn’t.

In this world, you can’t please everybody, that even if you think you’re doing and showing off your best, you still are nothing, for some. People nowadays (or even before i think…) are competitive really. We’re living in a world of competition where somebody always wins, the other loses. But i think that’s a major misconception about life. We must be competitive yes, but not to others, we must compete with ourselves, with our inner warriors. Use this competition as an artist molding and sculpting us to be a better person. When you encounter problems, try to ask yourself, “What did I do to solve such kind of problems before?” Then, try to initiate a better solution, because i believe that if you keep on applying old solutions to old problems, you’re just gonna end up experiencing them in the future. Look for a “period”. Or better, draw your own period(.).

When you feel hopeless, and incapable of doing something, when you’re feeling lost and small, when you feel like everybody seems to degrade you, nobody trust you, just pray–and believe in yourself when no one else does. Remember that’s a how a superhero learns to fly, that’s how a star learns to shine. Bear in your mind that it’s just the beginning, and beginning is always the hardest but as time passes, eventually, you’re gonna surpass everything, every challenge that hugs you. Just believe. 

We’re all born to fly. It just depends to us how high we spread our wings, if we want to soar, then go, but remember that if we fall, we’ll be hurt, really painful, nevertheless, we can try again and start all over till’ we reach our finish line. Be an inspiration to everyone!

One day, a little leaf fell from a tree, swayed with the blow of the teasing wind till’ it reached the ground, withered. If I were to give the ending for this. I’ll look for a gluestick or tape maybe. I’ll paste the leaf back to its branch, back to its tree where it grew and spent its life. Though it does not have life anymore, still, it’s with the leaves who never left its company. Therefore, that little leaf shall not leave them too. There’s always a hope, just believe. End of story.

By: Niño Macapinlac