FAIL: 31 days of 5-minute free writes
Hey! Another night of tired writing at 11:04 p.m.!
Here’s why I picked the graphic of a broken plate.
A friend of mine had her family’s beach house redone by one of those “makeover” shows a few years ago. Her husband was sent away to a tennis weekend and came back to a transformed house.
The home makeover people took old vintage plates that were at the beach house, smashed them and turned them in to a mosaic thing that surrounded the fireplace.
I know you may think this is a leading to “even things that are broken [failed] are a success in the end,” but I’m just talking about the picture.
The failures that hit me the hardest are the ones that involve people I’ve let down. I may only have time for a short list in five minutes, without explanations, but …
- The people who worked for me at Healthy Kids. There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t wish I had had more management acumen at the time
- That friend in high school … I had just moved from a big place to a small town and I really thought I was “all that.” One of her friends told me, “[name] says you’re her best friend” and my reaction was not, “oh that’s great!” Our relationship was never the same after that got back to her, which is sad. (We are still friends on Facebook — maybe decades do heal eventually.)
- Hopefully my kids don’t literally think I’ve failed them, but man are there moments I would very much like to…
