Since I was a child I have always liked to get into everything and in most things, I have been a failure 😅. In swimming, I was the only one in the group who didn’t learn to swim. In karate, I was afraid of getting hit or hitting someone. In soccer, I was so bad that I hoped they wouldn’t pass me the ball so as not to ruin it 🤣. But I also did well in other things; I think in baseball I defended myself and in guitar I learned well.
Even though I have failed in many things, I have brought that habit of trying into adulthood: I have tried to undertake multiple times, give online courses, make a non-profit project, do buying/selling of handicrafts, write a book, create this personal blog, etc. In most of them, I have not had success, in some others I have.
In all this time I haven’t been able to stop the phrase “A todo le tira y a nada le pega” (You aim at everything and hit nothing) from resonating every time I start a project. I have heard this phrase in my home region (very fond of baseball) and for those who don’t know it, it is something that is said mockingly when a person tries everything and nothing works out for them.
When I am going to start something new the phrase comes to mind and I think “What if I launch and it doesn’t work?”. But after the third or fourth project, I haven’t let it affect me (so much) anymore; after all there is no greater form of failure than not trying.
Once someone asked me, “When you reach your deathbed, won’t you regret if in the end nothing you did was a success?” and an idea occurred to me that I liked a lot: “No, because trying is fun, rather I would regret if I hadn’t tried.”