Dear Jess:

Failure, definition: a state of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, viewed as the opposite of success.

When I wrote “I wasn’t born a failure“, I mean that I was too young and helpless, as a newborn, to think about objectives, let along achieve cognitively formed objectives. When I wrote “I will not die a failure“, I mean that I already achieved my objectives, and therefore, I am not a failure and I will not die a failure.

Growing up and through my 20s & some of my 30s, I formed the following objectives: to be rich and famous, so that I can make my mother rich and happy.

I failed.

In the last ten years or  so, I formed a new objective: to learn and to heal, and to continue to learn and to heal for as long as I am alive,  and…  I succeeded. Sucess for me!!!

anita