Have you ever failed at something that should have given you a better life? and

Question:you know like crashing out of uni, a brilliant job or marriage, but then going on to be famous, rich or running a small country or summit? Just that i have done a few things in the past and not completed them...but not now i am doing my degree....finally.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: you know like crashing out of uni, a brilliant job or marriage, but then going on to be famous, rich or running a small country or summit? Just that i have done a few things in the past and not completed them...but not now i am doing my degree....finally.

this was a really interesting question and made me think about my life - i'm 21 and on my first year of uni while most of my friends are on the third. after my a-levels i did a foundation art course improve my chances of getting onto the costume course i wanted to for uni. howver this foundation course was really rubbish - i actually failed it because my tutors really disapproved of my style of drawing (it was because my course leader loved this style that i got on to the course eventually) i ended up taking a gap year when the course was over as my tutors told me to apply for uni too late and i didn't make the deadline for the course. this has been bugging me for a long time as i felt annoyed when i see the second year students and think that i should be doing their work. However, just before i left the foundation art course i met a wonderful man, who has now moved to my uni town so we could continue our relationship and we have big plans to move in together come august. Your question has really made me realise that if i had got my place at uni, although i still would've et this man the relationship would probably have fizzled out as it wouldn't have had time to develop in the 3 months i had before starting uni. So i suppose on reflection this is a perfect example of when something seems to have gone badly wrong but actually works out for the best

Sometimes, it helps if you considered life a little metaphysically where you could free yourself for the pressing logic of a circumstance, find new ways of looking at all things, create new realities for yourself, and think more laterally to be able to see what other things might be hiding behind the little pile of a rubble of that we have but all too close to eyes at times. We can see that the life is full of pathways and each path has many crossroads. We often stand motionless, thinking and finding it hard to make a choice, take a decision, but when we move one the other options, paths, and junctions we leave behind then all we have in our eye is the paths we have taken.

" I haven't failed I just found 10000 ways that don't work"

Sure
Why not?
Decode this lyrics " Island in the stream"
Wandering aimlessly.
At loss and stranded out there.
Trying to chase the great American dreams of puff the magic dragon that poof into thin air and turn into smokes and ashes in time.
After getting kick on the butts.
Came across "A pot of golds glitterings at the end of the rainbow"
Decode this lyrics " Season in the sun"
Realise life is worth living every second of it.
With time running out in time.
Life is not "Money, money, money"
Just "All for the money"
Luke 12.29-32
What do you think?

I guess, yes. Sometimes you have a chance that you know you want so bad and you let it go. You regret it and then something even better happens. That has happened to me. But it wasn't something that changed my life or anything.

Yes, my second marriage. I thought too much of myself and my needs, thereby became responsible for throwing away a very good marriage. It wasn't until later did I understand that it wasn't he who was to blame, but my own narrow view of my universe.
I have been able to learn from my mistakes, go on with my life even though I was very devastated by the divorce. I have come to understand that I am responsible for my own actions, words, emotions and thoughts.

Who was it said," its not the winning that matters, its the taking part that counts." I think that's a good guide give it a go ,,,,anything ,,if it works ,great if it doesn't,,,well you tried,,you had a go....never ever give up,,