What I Learned From Trying to Create My Failed Business.
I might have failed in terms of the worlds definition of “success.” But I accomplished way more than wasting my time.
Failure To Success
Becoming an entrepreneur was my dream. However as life teaches you, it is not enough to just have a dream. There has to be work, hard times, and failure. No matter how many times you seem to come back from a fall, it looks like you will be stuck forever in the pit that I like to call the pit of failure.
But there is one thing. There is no such thing as that pit. There is no such thing as failure at all. The word failure is not really what it seems to be. Failure, just means, according to the google dictionary, “a lack of success.” It does not mean “you are done forever.” It does not mean, “you should quit.” And it certainly does not mean, “nothing is going to work forever.”
Everyone will fail. Not one person in this world will never fail. Nobody’s path to success is a walk in the park. Then everyone would go to the park and take a walk. Not everyone can become successful. Because the world’s algorithm eliminates the people who quit after “failing.” And it will certainly eliminate the people who are too scared to start because they are afraid to fail.
A Failed Startup
So I’m sure you have heard that “failure is not a thing” a billion and one times. I’m also sure that you have never listened to it. Also, I’m sure that if you did listen, your life will change for the better. So what does all of this have to do with my failed business?
My business was an app. An app that was supposed to tell girls like me what to wear in the morning based on style, preference, weather, and more. Not only girls but anybody who wanted to use the platform. And I could swear that I searched the internet for sooo long to make sure nothing like that existed in the market before I started working on the app. Nonetheless, I guess that was not my time for success. A similar app already existed, and I was in a complete place of shock.
I worked on the business for months and months. Working for countless numbers of hours every day, and thinking so hard at night. All of that for this. For the next few days, I was troubled, I had so much idle time on my hands. There was anger, sadness, emotion-filled walks. Nothing was going to replace the passion I had for that business.
Purpose and Meaning in Everything You Do
That was until I realized that there was something more to that. There was something more to everything you do. There is a deeper meaning in everything you fail in. And there is a deeper solution. The meaning of my lost success was the knowledge that I gained. Not only about app development, but also about the pleasure it brought to me. I had learned about job life.
I had gained so much, that the failure seemed like success, not the success of the business, but my success. I learned something, the next thing I would do, I would apply the things I learned, then I fail, and learn more. So when people ask you what path you’re going to take after something fails, the answer is quite simple, “there are only two paths. I could either choose to move forward and chase my success. Or I stop chasing, and by the time I realize, it’s too late, success has ran too far ahead, it is impossible to catch it.”
There is so much more to life than just success and failure. There is so much more to a person than just success and failure. Life goes on. Keep dreaming, and keep believing, and maybe life will try and make them come true.
