You're a failure

Suck it up buttercup

I’ll stand by that assertion.

If you’ve driven a car, you’re a driver.

If you’ve surfed, you’re a surfer.

And, if you’ve failed?

You’re a failure. For ever.

Clear?

Great. End of newsletter.

Only it’s not that simple.

The words fail and failure come with a mountain of baggage.

Shame, embarrassment and humiliation are feelings we experience when we’ve failed.

At a sensory level, people frequently panic, need to fight or run away from the feelings that show up when they’ve failed.

I come across soooo many people who tell me that they feel like a failure. There’s a problem though. Though ‘failure’ shows up in the dictionary as a noun, it’s more an action.

Failure has an interesting word origin. It comes from ‘failer’ - as in one who has failed.