Hey you probably thought you would never see this title again.
Well I have had some interesting things happen in the last few weeks so I want
to be able to talk to you guys about that.
So I have decided to turn in a few of my plays that I have
written to my schools literary magazine. I will not know if my pieces have made
the cut for a few days, which I really don’t mind. But I am prepping myself
just in case they do not get selected which there is a decent chance of
happening. So why am I telling all of you this, well because if you go into
something prepared to fail then you kind of give everything you’ve got. Let me
give you another example.
I have mentioned this earlier I am part of my school’s show
choir tech, and we recently went to show choir nationals. Now I mean preforming
at show choir nationals is a big honor in itself but our show choir hadn’t been
having great year. We finishing pretty low in competitions so when we went to
nationals none of us thought that we were going to make finals, so we gave
everything we had because we thought there was no way in hell that we would
make finals so we put our blood, sweat, and tears on that floor, and by some
miracle when ended up making finals. I mean we placed last in finals, but we
were facing schools all around the country, and we won best tech crew. So sometimes
going into something prepared to fail and giving everything you have because
you have nothing to lose is sometimes the best thing to do.
If you go into something thinking, oh I am sure that we will
make it so we can save everything for later can and will most likely end up
backfiring on you. So going in cocky and not giving everything is worse than
going in ready to fail but giving everything you’ve got, because there is that
small light at the end of tunnel that you might just barely reach.
I know this one didn’t really focus on literature to say the
least but you can apply this to really anything. But if you want more about
failure and actual literature go to my second post ever titled Writing and
Rejection. You can find some more information there.
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