the profound benefits of failure 7/30/19

our personal dependency on failure

is not with the particulars

but more so on the method itself.

failure is a perspective leading into conclusions.

it is the essential work with failure

to discover beyond the elements accounted for

and to perceive beyond the stated results

so as to come to a clarity

beyond the makings of the event described.

failure is then investigated; 

for its abject worth,

for its stated elements of pronouncement,

for its emotional displacement,

and for its context of arrival 

and eventual resolve.

failure is a version of success.

for failure and success suffer 

from the same syndrome of influence,

caught in a futurization that proves one’s worth

but that falsifies this moment 

for the sake of another,

that substitutes audience perspective

for a value terrain made personal as ascent.

worth then becomes a distraction

in search of its original premise.

no, not the account premise,

but the hidden within one’s self premise.

the one that include irrational truths,

that remain undisclosed in real world ways.

where the context for self appraisal

has been made dependent 

upon exterior measures in a contextual confinement

that no one else really can adequately grasp

as either true source or hidden motivation.

yet the success or failure as vexing 

comes to apply as your worth relative to others,

as negotiated from the market of expectations,

mine for yours and yours for me.

all a false-front of existence in a communal sense

but still exceedingly prominent and practiced.

there is valuable information from success or failure

but not as a stifling conclusion or reaction.

somewhere within is the fluid state of being

that sees through and works with

the framing style exhibited by success or failure,

both of which produced a false status of being.

if passion were the guide

then neither would weigh heavily.

for instead of chasing success and avoiding failure,

both would serve to cultivate

a deeper sense of passion of being

and a refinement of drawnness 

as if purpose needed to take a momentous stance 

from deep within one’s being . . .