If there is something you want to do in your life, you can always start. Many people think that they won’t do it because it won’t work anyway and they will fail even if they do, but even if they fail, there will be something left in them from that failure, and maybe something will come out of the failure. If you don’t try, you won’t know anything, and something will change because you have tried.
Even if there are events in your life that you think were failures, if you keep going, you will learn something from them and seemingly miraculous things can happen in your life that will pull you to the stage of success in a different way than you thought you would. But that is also because you have been trying to make a little progress every day. Zero is zero no matter how big a number you multiply it by, but if you start something, the probability of success is never zero. Of course there are overwhelmingly more cases where things don’t work out when you start doing them, but that doesn’t mean that the probability of them working out is zero.
We tend to strive for perfection, and we tend to feel that what doesn’t work is wrong or shameful. But what doesn’t work is not a waste of our lives. We just need to make gradual progress, giving ourselves the greatest possible praise for the little things we are able to do at various stages of that stage. When the baby smiles, not only the parents but also the people around them become happy, when the baby turns over, they praise it, when the baby sits up, they smile again, when the baby crawls or stands up, they applaud again, and when the baby can walk, they are so happy that they are moved to tears. It is no exaggeration to say that this feeling of joy at a child’s own growth can be applied to many things. Never compare it to others, but rejoice in the accumulation of its small successes. And remember that for those small successes, the baby is also trying to do things with the most of the time he or she has.
This accumulation of joy for someone else’s growth and joy for our own growth can fill our hearts with happiness. Each one of us is not the same person, so we should not compare ourselves with anyone else, but rejoice in our own personal growth. And even if something looks like a waste or a seeming failure, you should be able to feel that it is a foundation and a beacon that will help you to succeed. Then life will blossom again and again.