10 Replies to “Beauty in the Flaws and Success in the Failures”

  1. YES. i am such a perfectionist. and even more than that…it freaks me out when i have no control over things. its so tough to accept when things dont turn out or just arent the way we envisioned. but i think blogging, living on my own, grad school and a billion other things that i never thought i would be doing have been great reminders for me to learn from all experiences and not just the good. sometimes i think we actually grow more from the negative 😉

    • girl, YOU have overcome so many dips, swearves, and surprises that have popped up and handled it like a champ! honestly, i have been so impressed at ur ability to adapt and roll with things! i agree that sometimes the ‘best’ things for us are the ‘worst’ things…or at least we grow the most from them. 😛

  2. GREAT post! Love the wisdom in learning from bad races. So often we only be discouraged from our disappointing races but such a good reminder that, as in life, the best thing to do is to learn from our mistakes and grow from them (or else we’ll just be stuck in the cycle of making the same mistakes over and over again).

  3. Ah, so true! In every screw-up and disappointing performance, there’s a lesson to be learned. I can definitely say that abut my injury – I’m glad I got the wakeup call! As for poopy workouts and races, I keep a really detailed training log so I definitely analyze all the factors – what I ate, sleep, weather, life stress etc – but sometimes you just have a bad day, and that’s ok! It teaches you to brush it off and try again instead of beating yourself up about it!

    • that’s another part, i had a friend who used to say, “u can be mad and upset after a race, but once u take a shower no more obsessing or ruminating about it!”

  4. I love this saying ‘accidental art’. What a beautiful way to look at life.
    All those flaws in our characters are what make us unique, what lead people to love us for who we are. We need to learn to embrace those fragments, they are precious.
    I suppose I am only a perfectionist really when it comes to my cooking. I can handle some degree of mess but if something really messes up then I find myself doubting that I am even an okay cook at all. I think I was a perfectionist throughout high school and when I got to university I learned to let a lot of that go. It was hard at the time but now I find that it has reduced a lot of the stress that I used to feel.
    Last epic fail – gluten free nectarine upside down cake.
    Added ice cream and the fail became ‘accidental art’.

    • hahaha…at least for me i know going in the baking will be a fail! 😛

      hmmm, i dunno, i’d still prolly take a taste of ANYTHING u constitute an epic fail…just saying 😉

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