The Illusion Of Failure And Success

`Success` and `failure` are commonly socially defined, as well as subjectively personally defined. If it comes with a social context, it changes according to the social setting. Hence, there is no definite `success` or `failure`, and only a notion that binds the person to a contract of delivering that result, but what happens if it is unfulfilled? Social stigma of the unrealizable procurement of social approval will be followed by shame, insufficiency and inadequacy. It becomes the self-worth of the person when associated with such `feelings or perception of failure`, rather than any form of true failure itself. Therefore, the overwhelming feelings that paralyzes the individual becomes his/ her defeatism or self-sabotaging `make-believe` in which s/he constantly punishes him/ herself to a dysfunctional state.

The irony is — no one is really looking or thinking of the individual constantly, other than themselves. In fact, most people are merely concerned and preoccupied with him/herself instead of the victim of socially defined failure him/herself. People are, in fact, overwhelmed by the daily stress to have concern over who even made a fool of him/ herself for the day. People hardly even do enough to understand anyone else which is yet an unfortunate fact of apathy, not to say to know enough to accurately assess or judge anyone else. The good news and bad news in the same…