“A failure is merely the non-presence of success.
Any fool can accomplish failure.” – Drew Baylor,
Elizabethtown*
Kind of like people who say
they aren’t afraid of heights,
they are only afraid of
falling,
I’m not usually afraid of
trying something new,
but
(I think)
I am probably afraid
of failure.
It’s not that I’m afraid of failure as a generalization.
(I don’t think.)
But in certain areas, I tend to play it safe.
I mean, I fail at things.
All.the.time.
But I’m not sure I take enough
chances.
I’m not sure I allow myself to fail
at the right things.
Am I a total chicken?
Am I afraid of what some people might think?
Would I be devastated
if I crashed
and shredded myself
into grapefruit pulp?
Maybe.
Yes.
At this point,
what I worry about
isn’t even failure
exactly –
at least not
entirely.
Yes, I’m not ready.
Yes, I’m unsure.
Yes, I may be stalling.
But mostly,
(I think)
I am afraid of the
extreme vulnerability.
* Elizabethtown ©2005