The Gift of More Tries
By Kevin
“Rejection and failure are like dying, except you get more tries.”
This thought struck me recently, and it’s a perspective we often overlook. Too often, we treat a rejection or a failure as a terminal event. From a young age, a dating rejection feels like the end of the world, a missed job opportunity feels like the ultimate defeat, or a failed business venture feels like a permanent collapse.
In reality, these are the essential pulses of a life well-lived. Without them, there is no real living. If you aren’t facing setbacks, you are navigating your one life so passively that you aren’t truly part of anything; you’re effectively opting out of the chance for genuine success or happiness.
While these moments are difficult, they are the only way we truly experience the world.
Without the sting of failure, the eventual “good things” lose their depth and impact. We don’t learn through easy success; we grow through the grit of rejection and the lessons of failure.
The profound beauty of life is that we can fail, learn, and try again endlessly—until the very last moment when the tries finally run out.
Because you only die once, you owe it to yourself to “fail away” and live every day with everything you’ve got. Make something remarkable of your one precious chance.
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