Did you ever feel like your a failure

Wow. I feel like a failure alot. I've been out of school for 22 years and am just now contemplating going to college. I finally know what I want to be when I grow up, good thing since I'll be 40 in three weeks (sigh). Don't be so hard on yourself. I loved your last line. I'll check back on you in a couple of days to see how you are.

Great quote. I feel like a failure a lot too, but like you I am finally going back to college and it will pay off. I've not done so well in the marriage dept and I feel like I failed there the most. I am looking at every experience as a learning tool, but those times do creep in when I am down and feel like a failure. Chin up and at the very least we have each other to comiserate with. LOL. Have a great day Diana.

((( I see failure as a disappointment in one thng or another...BUT, to GOD: He allows us to continue to accomplishing His reason for us being here...)))

Failure is an emotion that I am familiar with, but what makes it manifest itself more is when we constantly dwell upon it. The only way to rid the mind of failure is believe and concentrate on success. If we lose our minds to the darkness, that is what our eyes will see and hence we feel the way we look at the world.

Personally, I made the decision to never see myself as a failure again, because I have worked extremely hard to be where I am today and I am the product of believing in myself. Now, this isn't something I am a master at, but I am convinced and determined to prove to everyone, as well as myself, that i am somebody to be reckoned with.

Experiences are our best teachers, and everything is an opportunity to learn from.

Strength + Determination = Domination.

Best of luck to you and God bless...

Thanks for all who posted! Your words help!

Blessings Diana,
I hope you feel better today. I sometimes feel this way too. But I feel better when I realize it's when my expectations haven't been fulfilled. Then I start over, and realize when one door closes, another opens. I hope this helps as it helps me.

Diana - Hope you're up and at em real soon!! My thoughts are with you!! ;)

I frequently feel like a failure. Keep reminding yourself you aren't a failure. Things will get better sooner or later, so hang in there.

Lovely!

Hope you believe and if you do,, then look up and let go and ask for some sign in what to do,, if not ask anyway cant hurt right, thing will work out. There is alway Burger King,, as I tell my daughter,, who refuses to look becasue she prego,,

Thanks for all the support.. after an evening at school I felt much better! I'm collecting unemployment which is half of what I was making and of course the bills haven't been cut in half.. but we're managing!!! Rather than letting a job define my success I'm going to let my return to college at almost 50 years old define my success!!!

Diana, I truly believe that everything happens for a reason. Trust and know that there is something for you out there that will allow you to use your gifts, passions and talents. God has a plan for you and a place for you to serve. Don't give up! For now, look for ways to help others.

"Fear of failure and fear of the unknown are always defeated by faith. Having faith in yourself, in the process of change, and in the new direction that change sets will reveal your own inner core of steel." -- Georgette Mosbacher

Wow - have I EVER??!!!

And it has taken me years to learn to turn events that could make that feeling rise up like a leviathan and take me out, to make **most** of those events work out better than I ever imagined. I will go into details another day. Work - Personal Relationships - Parental Relationships, etc

I am still working on recoverng from a failure of a computing kind (Thanks Windows!!!) so I cannot spare much time here today.

But YOU are working on improving yourself - and maybe your 'new' education will open some unforseen doors....and life will 'blossom' for you again.