It’s taken an uncountable amount of failures for me to say this with 100% confidence.
I need to state that while my message may start off hurting your feelings, there’s a positive point to it all if you stick with me to the end -I promise.
If my math is correct, you are .0000001% of 100 billion people that have existed to this day.
If you Google the top inventors of all time, the results should come back with 24 names. That’s .0000024% of 100 billion people.
If you Google the most evil leaders of all time, the results vary, but the top 10 are all mostly the same. For shits and giggles, let’s bump that up to 20. That’s .0000020% of 100 billion people.
Translation: Your unique presence on this planet is insignificant within the grande scheme of existence. It’s also insignificant to the world as a whole. The odds are extremely high that you will be eventually forgotten no matter what you do or how much you achieve or fail.
So what’s my point? Failure is not the end of the line.
There’s not a failure you are capable of that will cause the world to end or alter life as we know it. We were born failing and continue to do so for the remainder of our lives. It’s how we learn. No one emerges from the womb with the answers to all of life’s great mysteries.
It is almost a narcissistic trait to believe that the world around you is going to notice if you fail an exam, a driver’s test, to pay a bill on time, lose your house/car, get divorced, so on and so on.
Failures impact your world. Because the world doesn’t revolve around you, most of the time everyone else is safe if you screw up.
Prisons are packed full of people who have made terrible choices and failed at life – but the world moves forward. Life goes on even with those atrocities committed to the history books.
Failing does not make you a failure. It makes you human. It increases your intelligence over time. Throughout my life people have been surprised when they learn that I do not possess a college degree. They mistake the lessons I’ve learned from my failures for classes I’ve paid to attend.
Only if you refuse to acknowledge the lesson and/or give up trying do you genuinely fail – but even then, you’re just failing yourself. It’s not the end of the world.
And apologies if this rambled or was difficult to follow. It’s 5am now and I’ve already been awake for 5 hours. I’m not exactly awake, but I was inspired to share.
Off The Rails 
I too don’t understand when people say, failure is not an option.
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