Did you fail a test? Did you not get into a certain club or organization? Did you not get that job? Didn't get into that school or get the scholarship you needed? Lost a friend? Did you not make that team? Lost a game or a competition? Did you fail at anything else?

Yeah, I have, too, so I know where you're coming from.

The biggest thing I have learned from failing is that it is completely okay to fail, but it is not okay to let that failure define you and keep you down.

Failure means that you took a chance, and even though it didn't work out the way you wanted it to, you tried. Like Wayne Gretzky once said, "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

If you look at your failure from a different perspective and think about other people who failed, but then made it somewhere they would never have gotten to if they had not failed at one point in their life, you might realize that this certain failure is meant to help you grow and prepare for bigger and better things.

Walt Disney was fired from a newspaper for "not being creative enough."

Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard, created Microsoft, and became the world's youngest billionaire.

Steve Jobs was fired from Apple, a company that he started.

Albert Einstein couldn't speak until he was 9 years old. He believed that "success is failure in progress."

Michael Jordan missed more than 9,000 shots in his career, lost almost 300 games, and missed the game winning shot 26 times.

Oprah Winfrey's first boss told her that she "was not fit for television." She is now the richest self-made woman and the only black female billionaire.

After learning about all of their failures, and then seeing their success, I regain hope that something better is waiting for me, and I might not see it yet, but something great is out there.

A famous quote from Abraham Lincoln reads, “My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”

Sometimes you will fail, that is just a part of life. You learn to deal with this failure, and then it becomes more and more common. This is when you must show the world how strong you are when it comes to failing because that doesn't give you permission to give up. Failing is getting a chance to try again, or try something else, until success. People want to see you fail, and do you really want to give them the satisfaction of giving up? NO!

Thomas Edison once said that he hadn't failed, he had just found many ways that did not work.

FAIL can be defined as:

First Attempt In Learning

Life is full of lessons learned from failure. You can choose to learn from your mistakes, or you can let your mistakes define you.