Failure is an Option

Are we teaching our children all they need to know about Life?  How can we possibly answer this question?  Are parents today more focused on ensuring that their children are happy at all times?  Are we giving in to their every whim trying to shield them from experiencing unhappiness?  In this age of the Internet and Social Media, "selfies" (our own self-imposed images of ourselves) are we forgetting some other things that we should be teaching our children?  What about Failure?  I believe today that society has labelled Failure a dirty word.  No one wants to fail let alone our children.  Yet, in the course of things, as our children move along in life failure, in some way, might very well be what they experience.  Have we not experienced this very phenomenon ourselves?  It is admirable to want only the very best for our children, it is admirable for them to strive toward perfection but are parents overlooking that they may experience just the opposite no matter how high their marks in school or how cool they may look to the opposite sex?  Failure is very much a part of life as well as Success.  We sometimes make the wrong decision, we sometimes say the wrong thing, we sometimes choose the wrong path all of which can lead to a disappointing ending.  So what?  Do we not have it within ourselves to sift from those painful decisions the Wisdom contained therein, those tiny jewels hidden from view that can turn our mistakes into Acts of Grandeur, Compassion and Selflessness in the greater scheme of things?  Failure is necessary and a stepping stone to other parts of ourselves as we come to know just who and what we are.  Failure is a necessary Part of Life.  Failure can indeed humble us to our very core and is necessary to our growth here on Planet Earth.  In the deeper and more intrinsic quest for knowledge as to who and what we are really capable of here on Planet Earth, Failure is indeed an option.