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Did others misunderstand us, or did we misunderstand ourselves?

When I no longer believe that I can still succeed, I have to accept my failure.

By Horn SmithPublished 3 years ago 4 min read
Did others misunderstand us, or did we misunderstand ourselves?
Photo by Marcos Paulo Prado on Unsplash

When reading the theory of success, talking about the characteristics that successful people should have, and the labels attached to them by social people, they will silently compare themselves in their hearts and discover the fact that they are mediocre. When I was in school, I got good grades, and I was often told by my family to outsiders. I really thought that I was a proud family and was a top student in learning. It's nothing, the heart of regaining glory spurs myself, but it can't change anything. When I no longer believe that I can still succeed, I have to accept my failure. I may have really misunderstood myself, not a top student, let alone a successful one.

Ten years after graduation, it is a process of constantly refreshing self-awareness. The eldest sister of the company told me that doing copywriting sales is to accumulate and gain the trust of customers, so the early efforts are very important, and the end of the month is the time to receive orders, so don’t give up easily. I said: I have done everything that I should do. It has been more than half a month, and I haven't received a single order. I can't hold on anymore. I want to resign. She said: Isn't there twelve days left? She patted me on the shoulder and wanted to work hard like a farmer without asking about the harvest. I had no choice but to do what I had to do but pray. In twenty-two days I received twenty orders. The eldest sister saw my beaming look and said, "I don't ask you about your appearance anymore." Do well. God bless the industrious. I misunderstood myself, but the eldest sister did not, she saw me.

What other people say you are, you are not necessarily like that. If you don't get the approval of others for a long time, it will be difficult for us to persist.

The pain of not trying and telling yourself "I really want it" is, in a way, less than the pain of "trying hard and failing." It's just that "you will win if you love to fight" is the chicken soup of the successful and the humble speech of the lucky. Use it to cover up the grief of the past, you may not win by fighting, but you must fight, and you must be lucky.

When I was young, I always liked to talk about the ideal of life. What is the ideal of life? It was to support my desire to endure the daily boredom and pain that ultimately didn't come true. With it, there is endless emptiness and pain before death; without it, this life will not survive. So, get one.

Some people like to divide life according to age, standing at 30, not confused at 40, knowing destiny at 50, empty window period, love period, best reproductive period, best health preservation period... what have you done. Life is not a simple construction, after doing those things, life will be complete. What you do today is a choice you made yesterday, what you will look like tomorrow is a choice you make now.

If we say that everyone should have such an experience, it is the ignorant happiness and hope that is higher than the sky-the struggle and suffering of being inferior to others-the anger and disappointment without return-the calm and ordinary and decadent. Not everyone can complete the four steps, and some people may only stay on one step in their entire life. My father used to talk about his achievements at the age of 30. He was full of anger at the world and refused to admit his mediocrity.

Is mediocrity bad? Most people are mediocre. I learned from my college days that I will never become a legend no matter how hard I work. The chance of mediocrity is 99%.

Everyone has a moment when they are defeated by life and reality. At that moment, they feel that they can do nothing well and have no value at all.

In order to avoid failure, tell yourself not to work hard, life will never get better, why can't you make yourself more comfortable? People's pursuits are different. It implies that I didn't succeed because I just wanted to be a salted fish, not because I didn't have the ability.

Are there really people who are willing to live their current lives and don't want to get better at all? Maybe there is, but I haven't seen it. I think my life is more comfortable and I just work hard for myself.

You and I are both mortals and live ordinary lives, but there are still countless small moments in life, countless moments that cannot be ignored, break the self-hypnosis that does not want to work hard and do not want to become better, let us look directly again Your true inner thoughts.

You change for the better of yourself, not for the "rules of other people's games". This is the real you, the free you. Not to be misunderstood, not to be misunderstood.

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