Abort, Retry, Fail?

It is so natural of us to be afraid to fail.
But in a complicated world like our's, isn't it a common place to fail?
It is us against everything else.
They all seem so tall and mighty.
There are so many things we do not understand.
The odds stacked so greatly against us.
How not to fail?

And because of this fear to fail, we fear to try.
It is a common story we see everywhere.
We start out everything with great enthusiasm.
Only to be cowered by multiple, sometimes catastrophic failures.
Because of this wound we are afraid to risk anymore.

Fear makes us turn away from doing even what is logical.
It forms mighty fortresses that are safe havens to hide in,
But they do nothing to solve our problems.
The false sense of comfort only make us believe things are fine.
But the fault still exists.

It all seems so unexplainable, even mythical.
As if the world is modeled such that individual endeavors are made to fail.
Because of the hurt we would rather ignore and dispose of the failure.
But aren't we combining fear and ignorance together?
That is even scarier than failure itself.

Failures are logical.
They happen for a reason.
Hurt though they may be.
But they are like data from a failed experiment.
In experiments you try and try, altering different variables and observe the results.
Until you get what you want.

At times we won't even get what we want.
Surely we don't dispose of the empirical truth for something that we would prefer?
The Truth is the Truth.
There is no escape.
And facing it is the first step to making things right.

Because of a few failed attempts we give up altogether.
Doesn't it mean that whatever we set out to do will always remain flawed and failed?
If we don't try and discern what really went wrong, how do we make the wrong right again?
Surely we cannot expect to get everything right in one go,
Given all the complexity around us.

Just look at history.
We have been trying for millennia and are still far from it.
We still kill each other, and multiple incompatible versions of Truth float around.
But we have managed to get a few things right.
Even these we only get them after much suffering.
If humanity has given up only after a few tries,
We would have never progressed beyond animal instincts.

Keep trying.
Accept that failures are the norm.
It is, in a complicated world like our's.
Look at all things with a fair heart.
Things will become clear.
The only thing that is stopping us from doing what we must is fear.

Fear.
Even I struggle to break free from it.
Time has built so many levels of it.
So much that I don't even know the cause for some of it.

But try even in the midst of fear we still must, if it is sound.
It is our only hope.
Our Light among the ruins of fallen trees.