Sunday, May 24, 2009

FAIL and BAIL

Why do those two words sound so much alike?
Where is it written that you CANNOT fail?  It is failure that often results in success.  Just watch a child learning to walk.  How many times does he fail before he finally masters the ability to walk?  Do we "bail out" the child when he fails?  No, we let him struggle so he will learn to walk.  It is through failure that we learn, but only if we get up and try again.
Where is it stated in the Constitution that we do not have the right to FAIL?  Freedom means the right to try, and if you fail, the right to get up and try again.  
Where do we get the notion someone or something is TOO BIG TO FAIL?  If a business cannot succeed then it deserves to fail.  
Today, we are too touchy-feely.  We don't let our kids fail.  It might hurt their little egos or self worth.  We have a society that thinks no one can be permitted to fail, regardless of how they err in life's decisions, so the government rushes in to BAIL them out.
There is something fundamentally wrong with the concept that others, those that succeed, should be forced to pay for another one's mistakes and failures.       

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