When we love

When we love

I got up in the night to write this down. It was floating around in my head as I was trying to sleep. I knew that if I did not write it down I would not remember it.

It is a poem about that reality of human nature that many of us possess:- that we prefer not to try in case we fail.

I used to be guilty of this. There is a tendency to keep your head down. As if we are so delicate that we cannot take the criticism or that we do not want to appear stupid, useless or a failure. We don’t like to hurt.

I think that if you never try, never put yourself forward, you can never succeed.

I believe it is better to try and fail than to live life without trying at all.

I believe that the hurt of failure and ridicule serves to make the taste of success all the sweeter.

Life is about pushing yourself to the limits and beyond, extending your reach, failing and succeeding, and reaching your potential.

I want to reach the end of my life knowing that I went for it. I don’t want to be full of regrets about what I could have achieved.

There is a horrible voice sitting on our shoulder whispering in our ear that we will fall flat on our face and look stupid. We need to tell our subconscious to fuck off.

 

When we love

 

When we love

Sometimes we are hurt

But it is better to be hurt

Than to have no feelings at all.

 

When we create

Sometimes it does not work

But it is better to make rubbish

Than nothing at all.

 

When we try

Sometimes we fail

But it is better to fail

Than never to have tried.

 

Opher 31.10.2015