difficul-ties. i trained hard for the race, so when i came out last
but one in the competition, i didn t call my attempt a failure,
because i had tried and struggled.
real failure is not to try hard. “i will forgive myself if i fail;
i won t forgive myself if i don't try”, because “it's better to have
fought and lost than not to fight at all”.
baron pierre de coubertin, the founder of the modern olympic
movement once said：“the most important thing in olympic games is not
to win, but to take part, just like the most important thing in life
is not the triumph, but the struggle. the essential thing is not to
have conquered, but to have fought well.”
but what if we did fail in something? simple. first, don t panic,
because failure is not the end of the world. as the english saying
goes, he who falls today may rise tomorrow. second, try, try again,
because nothing is really over until the moment we stop try-ing. so
long as we persist and never give up, we will succeed eventually.
no failure is sweet. however, just as bitter medicine cures
sickness, failure may prove to be very instructive, so long as we
can put it in perspective. there is a saying that failure is the