I suppose you could look at a life as a concentrated bouncing from one failure to another failure. Just one long series of failures. Busted dreams, busted relationships, busted hopes. Jobs lost. Ideas squelched. Mishaps, accidents, misunderstandings. But of course, that would be kind of sad and depressing.
So how about just thinking that all those little detours, and blowups, and breakdowns, and disappearing hopes were simply "excellent learning opportunities?"
Right. Opportunities to retool, rethink, retry, reinvent, recharge. I know it sounds like "happy talk" BS. But maybe it's essential?
Maybe better to think of life as this on-going experiment. An experiment where you don't really know what the results will be, and you don't really care about results. You experiment for experimenting's sake. And when there's a blowup, or a breakdown, or some kind of manufactured mess, you make a note of it and move on.
You plant the idea in your head that there is no final judgement. That's for others. And the judgement of others is not your game, not your life, not your concern...
