Here’s the deal: Everyone falls down in life.
Everyone.
Everyone has a down moment. Everyone faces a point where they are beside themselves, trying to find a way to lift themselves up. Everyone struggles with overcoming the harsh realities of life. Everybody faces what they believe to be a “failure.”
But honestly… you’re supposed to fall down sometimes. That’s how you become who you are. That’s how you eventually succeed. You need to fall down over and over again, and then get right back up. It takes courage, but you can do it and find meaning in it. As Confucius says, “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” Even he knew that everyone falls sometimes, yet there is great glory and beauty in falling.
Falling ignites the belief that you have in yourself.
When you fall down, the only way to get up is in believing that you can make it. It doesn’t matter how many failures you’ve made. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you’ve endured. It doesn’t matter how many defeats you’ve faced. It doesn’t matter about what you’ve done. All that matters is that you rise up… that you believe you can still make it… and most importantly, that you learn to stand up to yourself inside of yourself. Yes, you learn to stand up to your “negative” internal self.
We need to escape this belief that we are supposed to not fall. If we didn’t fall, then what would be the point of living? How would we develop into who we are supposed to be?
When you want to achieve something or when you want anything out of life, you have to be willing to fall. You have to be willing to blindly step into the unknown. It’s then that you develop what you need to accomplish what you dream of doing. And most importantly, it’s then that you become who you were created to be.
So just know, it’s OK. We’re all supposed to fall down sometimes. You’re not alone. And when we do, we’re all supposed to get right back up after we do. You have it in you.