This is failure
It’s that moment when you realize that
a choice you made,
or something you did,
has fully changed the course of your life.
But what matters even more than this truth is
what you do choose to do once you know it.
The tendency may be to curl up in the fetal position
and wait for things to improve.
But if you can somehow manage
to take a breath and look around you,
you might just spot
another path you hadn’t seen before.
It may not be easy to walk,
especially the beginning.

But all that really matters is that it’s there.