Success of Failure

Joel Fished poses an argument over the existence of ‘failure.” Failure is not really a failure at all. It’s interesting to think of failure as an intangible mystery substance. I liked the point about intentional vs unintentional failure; How unintentional failure is more of a lesson and how intentional failure is more of a backhanded success: the acceptance that all is lost. Very negative thinking. And oh, how easy it is to stew in your own negativity! Trapped beneath its murky, sticky weight and blinded by doomly racing thoughts until everything’s forced into emergency shut-down. I think I’ve been doing that a lot lately; automatically jumping to the conclusion that I’m lost with a certain idea and hopefully I’ll have better luck next time. At least, when it comes to art. BWAAHh!!! No!! I need to stop that poisonous kind of thinking. It’s interesting to begin to consider that failure, as it’s been seen in my mind lately, is a really skewed perception. Even the most unproductive, miserable creative dry spells are really just mere speed bumps in the road. They’ll slow you up for a bit, but in the end you’ll come out with more experience and knowledge to plow through with a little more understanding of things, even if it’s just an understanding of the experience. Success is one dimensional, where ‘failure’ has a secret trap door at the end of its blackness, leading to more possibilities and ideas and options. It’s more of an intelligent mindset, I think, to perceive ‘failure’ as a learning experience rather than an execution sentence.