Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying. - Frank Burford
All events still have to pass through the mind of a person to become reality. Whether or not they are failures still depends on and influences the person. Principles of CBT.
If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it did it make noise?
I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative. - Sugar Ray Robinson
I've had bad headaches since sunday morning, when I woke up with a bloodshot eye. Making an optometrist's appointment will help figure out if there's a connection between something ocular and the aches. Being whiney, I've lounged around a bit, watching tv, and feeling stiff.
I feared losing site in my eye, and joked to myself that if I lost the eye that looks negatively at things, it wouldn't be such a loss.