In the Queen of the South movie that I’ve been watching, Teresa Mendoza begins her life as a kidnapped slave and drug mule who must risk her safety and health to help people ship drugs overseas which is the only reason, she manages to escape torture and certain death.
In other words, she begins life as a failure. She later climbs the cartel ladder to become a successful and beautiful drug lord. Before my book ideas were finalized, I felt like a writing failure, even though I was not an academic failure, a professional failure, a social failure, a moral failure, a biological failure, a spiritual failure, or intellectual failure.
But I started out with no directions, no connections, no ideas, no authorship skills, no knowledge, no wisdom, no publication achievements, no mentors and no hope, so I felt like a writing failure in the early stages of my writing career. Now all of those things are being resolved and I’m succeeding in my career as a writer.
What I learned after coming up with my book ideas is that the real failure isn’t a lack of professional success and skill. The real failure is being a bad person. If your rich like Trump but your full of pride and greed and hate, than you are essentially a failure, because life is about serving God, not about getting rich. Somebody who fails at ethics, fails at life and somebody who fails at humility, fails at ethics.
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