Claud

An avid collector of your hopes and worries, a romantic at heart.

She thanks her fairies, for blessing her with people who know compassion down to an art.

For accepting her for who she is, who never fails to turn up,

in times of need as well as happiness, or just there for a loving hug.

This month's reader's digest made me think about some...

In the article "Bounce Back", which is all about failure, there is a quotation from the article regarding Rowling's speech to a Harvard audience which goes:

[JK Rowling] didn't focus on success. Instead, she spoke about failure. She related a story about a young woman who gave up her dream of writing novels to study something more practical.....But during rock bottom time, she realised she still had a wonderfull daugther, an old typewriter and an idea that would beome the foundation for rebuilding her life.

"You may never fail on the scale i did, But it is impossible to live withut failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have live at all - in which case, you fail by default. You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity Such knowledge is a true gift, for it is painfully won, and it has been worth more to me than any qualification I ever earned."

WOW....

I don't know...the words in bold struck a chord in me partly because it's so close to heart.

Now after reading the article, I now know that failing brings life's lessons - literally. Failing builds neuron connections which happens during learning also. Interesting eh...maybe out forebears knew this already....

Failure is something i have a hard time embracing well. Be it my ego, my pride, my prejudice...but now, i think i'll have a different outlook on failure. Like what they say on Mythbusters, "Failure is always an option."

But that doesn't mean i won't be heading towards Imperial...HAHAHA...i've "failed" to do that in 2008, i've learnt my lesson (forgive the pun) and i'm gonna make it happen this year...

the figures look promising =)