"Seven years after my graduation day, I had failed on an epic
scale. An exceptionally short-lived marriage had imploded, and I was jobless, a
lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain. The fears
that my parents had for me, and that I for myself, had both come to pass, and I
was the biggest failure I knew. But I began to direct all my energy into
finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything
else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I
believed I truly belonged. You might never fail on the scale I did, but some
failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at
something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived
at all – in which case, you fail by default." - JK Rowling
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