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Failure is Not The End

Lately I have been reading a lot about people's failures. You might think that's a bad thing, but not a single one of the stories I have read ended badly. People talk about their struggles and how their businesses didn't succeed as they had hoped. Yet they picked up and kept going, even if that meant finding something else to do, or another business to start.  Everyone has to fail first in order to succeed. I think it makes us stronger, it builds character, it makes us try hard and press farther. Recently I decided to go for something, something pretty big. I submitted the application which was full of personal information including essay questions which were really personal and deep. Going into it I realized I was severely under qualified in most areas, but I figured why not try anyway. Filling out those forms I learned so much about myself, about my true passions, about who I have become in the past few years and also who I am not. I hit the submit bottom with high anxiet