IS IT WORSE TO FAIL AT SOMETHING, OR NEVER ATTEMPT IT IN THE FIRST PLACE?

So as a bit of a starter before I get to the question of, "is it worse to fail or never attempt?". I want to state that this is my first "Philosophical Tuesday" and these posts are not suppose to anger anyone, or go against anyone's morals, it is merely a question I am sharing my beliefs on. If at any point you feel uncomfortable reading this know you can stop, and if you go to my "Contact Me" page you can send me an email stating why you feel I went against you and I will review it and respond. Again though, this is just a question I choose to answer with my beliefs and views. I hope I get people thinking and I hope people enjoy. Thank you!!

I'm sure we have all been asked or begged by a friend to play a sport, say baseball with them. And maybe your response went a little something like this, "No way. I suck at baseball!!" That probably would have been my response anyway, at least up until now. Because now I've really thought about the question stated above about, is it worse to fail? or never attempt?

My belief is that it is better to fail. Why might this be? because you can never know if you're good at something or if you enjoy something unless you've tried it. Lets say, for example, in gym class when you're really young, you don't have a fear of failing to hold you back, not really anyway. So you choose to participate in every game that the teacher chooses to play. This is what probably made you decide that you like certain sports and hate others. You know this, because you attempted it. Maybe you failed it the first few times, or many times, or maybe you just suck at the sport, but because you attempted it you can make that decision, or no its not really my sport, or I LOVE this game!!

Lets look at another way to view things;

You probably got your first job around the age of 15 or 16, some maybe younger, some maybe older, just that is the average. So I'm going to guess most people began working at either McDonalds, Tim Hortons or a little restaurant in their area. Maybe you didn't just bear with me. If that was your first job I'm assuming you applied just because you wanted money, not because that's what you wanted to do with your entire life. So you work here for a while, and you hate it. This means you now know, this is NOT what you want to do with your life, AT ALL!! It was an attempt that taught you that. So from that attempt in the fast food business you decide to stay as far away from those "Now Hiring" signs as possible, and at this point you're 18, and you decide to apply as a receptionist at the local Law Office, after all, you want to be a lawyer. Once again you work at this place, attempting it, and guess what? The environment just isn't for you, so the next step is, okay, lets do a whole life change, I don't want to go to college for this anymore, I want to go here for this. And with that you get accepted into Social Service Worker at the college a few hours away. You decided not to apply for part time at the foster care unit because you don't want to jinx it, you would hate to realize this is early that Social work wasn't your thing either. And ultimately its isn't. You get your degree and you get a job. And its just not for you. If you would have attempted it earlier you wouldn't have wasted so much time and money. but now you're stuck, at least till you make some more money.

With all of this being said, I believe that it is worse to not attempt something at all, than to fail because you did make that attempt. You gain experience and knowledge by attempting and doing new things, especially when you end up failing, it makes you think of the things you could do differently next time to make yourself better. So long story short, try baseball, try soccer, try everything you have the chance to, even if its a little work shop in the community where you can make things for the people in the hospital, maybe its something you find you really enjoy doing, Without attempting stuff you'll never know anything about yourself, don't be scared to fail. Learn from your failures.

And Together Lets:

Make a Creak

:)