Failure isn’t missing a goal. It isn’t losing a job, falling behind, or stumbling through a plan that never worked. No, the true definition of failure is far more spiritual — far more confronting.
It is to be gifted with consciousness and waste it.
To walk this Earth with eyes wide open and yet never lift them to the sky.
To be aware of one’s breath, one’s beating heart, the miracle of existence — and still choose numbness.
To scroll endlessly, complain meaninglessly, strive for nothing that matters, and let the divine thread within you rot unused.
That is failure.
Repugnant is the being who has been given awareness — the sacred spark of reflection, insight, and awe — and does nothing with it. Who spends their days chasing distraction, fueling bitterness, and ignoring the vastness they come from and will one day return to.
It is not the fall that damns you — it is the refusal to look up from it. To not even try.
This life is breath borrowed from eternity. Each moment a fragile stitch in the divine tapestry of time. And yet how easily we squander it, convincing ourselves that there will be more time, a better moment, a clearer path.
But time is not yours to own. It is a flame passed to you only for a brief flicker.
You are not here to merely survive. You are not here to simply float through the days, untouched by meaning. You were given consciousness — so use it. Wrestle with truth. Stare into the infinite. Question. Create. Bow. Roar.
Lift your eyes to the heavens not out of dogma or tradition, but out of reverence for the fact that you can. That in this brief, mysterious span of time, you are alive — aware — awake.
To ignore this is not just foolish. It is betrayal.
The failure is not in falling. The failure is forgetting you were meant to rise.
— Wout
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