Failure

"Life is a succession of choices, what is yours?"
By Javier Allegue Barros

Failure |
Saturday – June 13, 2026

Failure... Failures... Indeed, life is full of them and I have had my "fair share" of them, and I am also continuing to have them, which is okay. I guess what I am trying to express is a somewhat modern sentiment here: if failure is an option, it would be prudent to avoid that option. The fact is of course that failure, more often than not, is something that happens to you whether or not you like it; it affects you and you are left to deal with it or not deal with it. Of course, what failures do is that they emphasize the many ways of life, sometimes too much, but often just enough, because one could use failure as a tool to become more productive, because if you are a failure then there is plenty of room to improve. Sometimes however, it becomes clear—often if you have failed and failed again—that improvement indeed is not an option and that instead you need to "move on" with your life, and again so far this all applies very much to the material side of life. Now, if you will allow yourself, you can open up to the metaphysical side of life, but this does require a certain amount of patience, really a well rounded application of skillful means. What I am trying to convey is that God speaks to us in many ways, and what failure, particularly the repeated kind, should teach you is that you have been lead astray, and hopefully it becomes clearer yet that you are missing something in your now failed endeavour, and more often than not you are missing God. If you will, there is a missing link in your life, and yet another way to put it would be this: if you are repeatedly sensing a certain amount of dissonance between reality and your own perception, is there not something missing? Of course, the biggest contributor to this certain level of dissonance is the idea of individualism and "preferences", preferences for all sorts of things in life, read "Further Notes on Addiction", and many of these preferences will lead you astray; they will lead you down a dead end path, and if you lack the skills you are unlikely to find your way back to the correct course in life. Of course, sometimes these preferences are more obvious and sometimes they are less obvious, but you must understand that what you believe is a kind of choice, is actually more often than not something that has been imposed on you, because you see, these things work in subtle ways that do not make themselves obvious. Further, if money is the most obvious thing that attracts you, pulls you away, from the correct course, something like attraction or status may be less subtle, although attraction and status are still profoundly corporeal matters, though less fluid than money, read "What are Demons?". Then there are false preachers, read "The Hypocrisy of the Pious", and they will also work to guide you towards the wrong path, and they are surely numerous, but the difference between money and a false preacher is actually rather subtle, for the other (the false preacher) proceeds from money and is therefore a contingent principle of money; or rather, it follows that false preachers are akin to money in the final analysis of our world, read "The Eschatology of the Kali Yuga".

    What I am trying to explain is this: yes, from a functional and material point of view, it could very well be the case that failure can and/or should be seen as something that calls for improvement and practice, but often men will find themselves in a position in life when no such thing will be an option, and even if they engage in some kind of practice and attempts at improvement, they will still fail, and it this second and final kind of failure that perhaps can work to evoke the most sentiment among men, but what is really happening here is simply something quite common: upon repeated failure, you are more likely than not misplaced and outside of your domain, read "Hierarchy". Now, some people may refer to this as skills and "talents", or rather the lack of skills and/or talents, and yes this is a rather crude but nonetheless true way to conceive of it, although this is still a strictly corporeal conception. Some other men may also refer to repeated failure as a kind of biological limit, read "Intelligence", and so forth. Regardless of how you choose to frame the problem, the fact remains that you are lacking something quite essentially vital, and all you may amount to, in whatever failed endeavour you are engaging in, you are at best a counterfeit – a fraud. Do you really want to be a fraud? Do you really want to live a lie? Sure, to a rather large extent most modern people do actually live lies, and most modern men will never accept their own seeming limits as lack of skills, but rather they will reframe them in a more egalitarian view that makes them out to be a fallen hero, read "My Views on Heroism", and a victim; all this instead of accepting the fact that by divine providence they have been placed in the world for one path, a path that they are now rejecting. Of course, when you become a victim you also become vulnerable to malign (malefic) influence, read "Ideological Indoctrination", and this tends to keep them off the righteous path.

    How then—in view of all this—should you deal with failure? Again, first of all you need to assess whether or not this failure is due to contingent circumstances outside your own range or within your own range, and if the answer is yes to one or (to a limited extent I must add) both of those questions, then you do have a chance of correcting the failure; but if the answer is no to both of those questions, then you likely have no hope of actually correcting the failure that you are presently dealing with, and any further attempts to correct something that will not be corrected is not only a waste of energy (read vital essence), but a rather painful thing, and until you accept your predestination, in regards to your failure, you will go on and the pain will not let up. Does this mean that you should give up? Yes, but "give up" is a rather crude and perhaps even offensive way to put it; really, I would prefer to use the phrase "move on", because essentially to "move on" or "moving on" is what you are hoping to do. Now, an even more crude way to put it would be to say something like: "you need to know when to quit". However you relate to the problem at hand, the fact is this: you will fail in life, and you will fail more than once, and more than twice, and if you become unable to let stuff go, you will never become able to find harmony, or "satisfaction" as moderns would put it, and eventually the grief that you would generate by living with all of these failures would overcome any normal sense, and really your failures would end up consuming you, read "Cannibalism". What kind of a life is this? Is this a life worthy of existence? Of course, and in true individualism, the choice is yours, but I can assure you that failures will not let up are an indication, and they will not go away. Yes, you will not get around that fly; that fly will continue to annoy you until you allow yourself to let up, for only then can you actually "move on", read "Self-Improvement?".

Reginald Drax – June 13, 2026.