Comments on: F is for Failure and maybe for freedom http://overflowingbrain.com/2009/11/03/f-is-for-failure-and-maybe-for-freedom/ Witnessing absurdity since 1983. With room for crazy since 2007. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:46:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: GreenInOC http://overflowingbrain.com/2009/11/03/f-is-for-failure-and-maybe-for-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-5025 GreenInOC Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:06:35 +0000 http://overflowingbrain.com/?p=1600#comment-5025 Just saw your earlier tweet... Trainwreck? Let's see, you face everyday with pain. You go to bed knowing it will be there when you wake up. You wake up knowing it will accompany you all day. You have this pain and are a wife, are a sister, a friend, continue to go to school, worry about going to school, dealing with ongoing medical issues, worry about failing, expressing your fears in this here blog, dealing with daily life (strep throat, commuting, travels, weddings, etc...). Unless you've got the Self-Loathing Dictionary For Overachievers Who Wouldn't Even Be Happy With A 5.2 GPA version, then no you've completely missed the definition of trainwreck!! Just saw your earlier tweet…

Trainwreck?

Let’s see, you face everyday with pain. You go to bed knowing it will be there when you wake up. You wake up knowing it will accompany you all day.

You have this pain and are a wife, are a sister, a friend, continue to go to school, worry about going to school, dealing with ongoing medical issues, worry about failing, expressing your fears in this here blog, dealing with daily life (strep throat, commuting, travels, weddings, etc…).

Unless you’ve got the Self-Loathing Dictionary For Overachievers Who Wouldn’t Even Be Happy With A 5.2 GPA version, then no you’ve completely missed the definition of trainwreck!!

]]> By: Sue G http://overflowingbrain.com/2009/11/03/f-is-for-failure-and-maybe-for-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-5024 Sue G Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:56:21 +0000 http://overflowingbrain.com/?p=1600#comment-5024 Failing is when you don't live up to the standards that the world sets. Because if the standards were your and you loved yourself, you couldn't fail. You could only change your mind or try again or find something new. All options would be considered a gift. Looks like you're living up to the standards the world has set pretty well. So if you feel as if you're failing, it's time to look at what you want and see if you're failing yourself by not being flexible or true to your heart. Certainly it is obvious even to you that you cannot fail us or anyone who loves you. Failing is when you don’t live up to the standards that the world sets. Because if the standards were your and you loved yourself, you couldn’t fail. You could only change your mind or try again or find something new. All options would be considered a gift.

Looks like you’re living up to the standards the world has set pretty well. So if you feel as if you’re failing, it’s time to look at what you want and see if you’re failing yourself by not being flexible or true to your heart.

Certainly it is obvious even to you that you cannot fail us or anyone who loves you.

]]> By: lceel http://overflowingbrain.com/2009/11/03/f-is-for-failure-and-maybe-for-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-5023 lceel Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:00:33 +0000 http://overflowingbrain.com/?p=1600#comment-5023 It's amazing to me that you're passing your classes - given the distractions you're dealing with. It seems, perhaps, you're tougher than I thought. Certainly tougher than I am. You may be confused right now - you may be hurting right now - but you are, right now - amazing. It’s amazing to me that you’re passing your classes – given the distractions you’re dealing with.

It seems, perhaps, you’re tougher than I thought. Certainly tougher than I am.

You may be confused right now – you may be hurting right now – but you are, right now – amazing.

]]> By: Me http://overflowingbrain.com/2009/11/03/f-is-for-failure-and-maybe-for-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-5022 Me Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:00:21 +0000 http://overflowingbrain.com/?p=1600#comment-5022 Someone once told me, "Just because you can do it, doesn't mean you have to do it." Not sure if that means anything to you, but it pretty much changed the course of my life... and well, so far, that life is pretty okay. Loving you through it. T Someone once told me, “Just because you can do it, doesn’t mean you have to do it.”

Not sure if that means anything to you, but it pretty much changed the course of my life… and well, so far, that life is pretty okay.

Loving you through it.

T

]]> By: akinoluna - a female Marine http://overflowingbrain.com/2009/11/03/f-is-for-failure-and-maybe-for-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-5021 akinoluna - a female Marine Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:54:51 +0000 http://overflowingbrain.com/?p=1600#comment-5021 That sucks...but...yay passing!! That sucks…but…yay passing!!

]]> By: pgoodness http://overflowingbrain.com/2009/11/03/f-is-for-failure-and-maybe-for-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-5020 pgoodness Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:13:02 +0000 http://overflowingbrain.com/?p=1600#comment-5020 I know this exact feeling - the desire to just fail and start over with a clean slate; to move on even though things aren't as bad as they feel. I know this feeling and it's tough and feels impossible. I know. I know this exact feeling – the desire to just fail and start over with a clean slate; to move on even though things aren’t as bad as they feel. I know this feeling and it’s tough and feels impossible. I know.

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