What's Next for Failed Events

So, for those who have read most of the literature base in this “Need to Fail” blog, if we agree that change is difficult and one reason may be due to the risk of engaging in failed events, then what do we do now? Is there an answer, one that will work for everyone around the world, a common solution? It seems through history, this has not shown itself. More critical than answers, may be the search for meaningful questions.

What do we all want and why? Happiness?

What is happiness?

What is the price of happiness?

What do I need to be happy? Money?

How much money do I need to be happy?

How do I gain access to that money?

How do I sustain access to that money?

What am I willing to do to gain access to money? For how long am I willing to do this?

Where do I find guidance to help me attempt to answer these questions? Home, school, society, friends, religion, other?

Where do we/you go from here? What is the point, what is the purpose, was did the time spent on this blog (whether reading or writing) worthwhile?Thoreau would respond to these questions most likely as “time is a but the stream I go fishing in.” Having experienced his own set of failed events from civil disobedience to daily failed gatherings of nourishment at Walden. ["I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish."] To gauge one’s value and method for setting priorities of their woefully limited time, Thoreau framed his perspective simply as “a man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.” What can we let alone? People? Things?”I love a broad margin to my life.” It seems that Thoreau alludes to actively searching and possibly embracing failed events in his life in an effort to increase the margins, to know more each day, experience, live. Although he realizes that in pursuing life, “our horizon is never quite at our elbows.” As you might surmise, I enjoy Thoreau immensely and although many people have heard and even read of his quotes, most may not know why he ventured into Walden and more importantly why he returned to civilization? “I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps, it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.”Another use for failed events could be as an indicator for the time that we all need to either venture into the woods or wander out, returning to a life, or developing a new one. Either way, time ticks, we fail, we live.