30 Something

I was listening to Tavis Smiley's commentary one day and he saying that he was speaking to one of the great minds (I believe it was cornell west) and he was trying to be convinced that no one is a success. He was saying that when it comes to the end everyone will have something in their life that they didn't complete. So in essence we are all failures. So his question was, if that is the case "how good is your failure." I was thinking about that because man as much as I want to be a success in life I keep pining over the fact that I tend to allow fear to keep me from doing what I got to do. It devastates me. I've always been told that I was a leader and I always felt that I was, but in being that I always felt that I was too different from people and sometimes being different doesn't always feel good. So in order to feel "more normal" I would people please. I would try to conform and everytime I tried to conform I always ended up feeling bad because in conforming I did things that I didn't want to do. Sometimes I didn't have the mental strength to stand and be me and I've been wanting to work on that, but I didn't know how. I think that older I get the easier it is for me to be me. Especially when I start to see myself in my students. Some of them really need some guidance just as I did which is the reason for me wanting to teach in the first place.

Speaking of failure...

... about 30% of my students failed the semester. That to me is a shame.

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