My Failed Haiku

This is a story about how I botched making a Haiku, I hope you find it comedic and helpful as later in the article I talk about failure, - despite the slightly embarrassing nature of the initial setback - I laughed a ton during the entire thing, especially during the minor setbacks. Enjoy!

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If you look in my feed you will see this:

I did this because I was trying to enter - well - the Haiku Contest, and resteeming was part of the rules - I decided to do some Photoshop shenanigans to up my ante and I ended up creating this:

This is a time lapse of me making it.

Which I thought was snazzy, until I saw this

I had incorrectly counted syllables. Twice.

(Also special shout out to @moonleesteem for being so patient with me, thanks friend. If you want to submit ahem a proper Haiku you should checkout their contests sometime, it could be a fun thing to participate in)

This still makes me smile, there is something interesting about harmless failure, it's a lot of fun to learn from mistakes when minor set back takes place, because in most learning situations you will be just fine - no one died after all, I think a lot of people get too embarrassed about small things, but you have to be willing to take the risk of getting hit to learn how to fight, you know?

I wanted to share this silly and minor mistake because it's silly, and I want to remind you that a small mistake shouldn't hold you back, it should enable you. You learn, you grow, you move forward. Children have to babble before they can learn to talk.

Sometimes I think people got it all backwards - people overreact to small things and under-react to major ones - people will waste thousands of dollars a year because they are too stubborn to a budget, spend on fast food and inflate their weight and waste several work weeks per month on Netflix, but will complain and be outraged over seemingly mundane things such as a person in traffic, or that there is some small group of people who believe something absurd, or that they fell obligated to whine about anyone with more money then them.

I mean come on.

Reallocate your focus unto the big things, how can you be happy if you choose to be fussy over small things and ignore the large macro issues. The problem isn't that your fast food order was wrong, it's that your ordering fast food.

This a harsh truth in my belief but it needs to be said, as people who don't take responsibility for their actions cause massive pain and suffering:

If you mess up something big, your a failure.*

*And part of being a failure is owning the responsibility of changing it, and thus removing yourself from the state of failure and you are no longer a failure. I have seen people be way too soft to real and dangerous failures, and frustrated like hell on earth over small minor inconveniences.

For example:

I feel like getting mad at / on Steemit 9 times out of 10 is just petty. You are on a platform that pays you directly allowing you to bypass the tyranny of advertisers and other platforms. This is a great opportunity - think of your parents who spent their time breaking their backs on a farm or in an office - they didn't have this option, so what if a Meme makes $40 on Steemit? Ignore that micro problem and rejoice in the macro. Do you really think your work at home business will do well if you complain, completely oblivious to how lucky you are to do this?

I am not singling anyone out, honestly I am more so talking about myself, it's a great reminder to myself. If I don't like it, I can just quit. There's no point complaining, especially when the opportunity is this good.

We can now get paid directly to make content, and ideally that content is good. Quality content will flush out the mundane over time or at least push it to the bottom, or form a great a foundation for Steemit to grow on.

Own your big mistakes, let go the trivial ones once you learn from them - and thrive in between them until their frequency is diminished entirely. When you learn from your big mistakes and own them like a authentic human being, and let go over what ever it is trendy to be outraged at currently.

You could've died yesterday, but your still here alive and breathing - but someone else isn't.

Allow yourself to grow, and see in the big picture, you have so much to be grateful for.

~ Archive ~

Thanks for reading. God Bless. :)

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Bonus: Some Samurai in the olden days used to meditate on death every morning, to make amends with the reality of being soldier. This allowed them to focus on the here and now, and plan for the future whilst being intelligent.

Raise your ambitions as life is too holy to be lived apathetically, you will have to die, but you do not have to live a life full of unnecessary suffering.

Take care friends.