Definition of Failure

Hannah Goracke Dr. Young English Composition 101 26 September 2012 Failure Failure is an ambiguous shape. Each person can define what it means to analyze in a take issueent way. Just as someone has their own standards of leading a made life, they also have their own standards in terminals of maybe leading a not so successful life. Within the contrive loser therein lays a few different cores that may differ from person to person depending on his or her own opinion. Each person may have had a different experience with harm, which led him or her to believe what he or she does.Today, failure can be attached to three different ideas. First, failure can be defined as the opposite of success. lost the race? You failed it. Got a 54 percent on your last mathematics test? Thats failure. Whether this failure comes about as a result of laziness or just bad luck, this is the type of failure that we have been taught since we knew how to spell the word. It is the most common use of the wo rd if you were to ask a random unknown what failure meant to them, they would most likely correlate it with the word success.Failure is not success, it is weakness to succeed. Still, there is another(prenominal) meaning of the word that takes on a more philosophical view. Failure, some may argue, is the actu every(prenominal)y the word apply to describe the result of not seek. This definition has to do with the outcome the effort opposed to trying only if not reaching a specific goal. Failing to do anything at all is impuissance to try. You want to run the race, but you dont? Failure. Got a 54 percent on your math test? Technically failing, but did you try?If any sort of trying was involved, failure did not occur. plane by getting an F on the math test, there was still an A for effort. The third meaning may require a bit more explanation. The word fail has become quite shopworn in todays society among young tween-age kids to teenagers. It has become a slang term, usually used in humorous situations. It is often used to kid or make fun of another or themselves when a small and funny mistake has been committed. It is almost always used in a jocular manner.You overslept your alarm and missed your first class? Fail. That person left their blinker on for two miles after(prenominal) they turned? Fail. The word fail has become part of the young peoples generation. It is a term that is used very commonly among the teenagers of today. Failure can have multiple meanings. How its interpreted all depend on the person and the context of their situation. Someone who tried to complete a task but instead experienced failure might be bitter or bullish depending on his or her outlook.Someone who is more pessimistic might repeat that failure is the opposite of success. Someone who has a more optimistic mindset would be able to look at the bigger picture understand that by failing to try, they decrease their chances of success exponentially. Failure has taken on another meaning as a pop slang term used by young people to describe a funny mistake. The term failure holds much ambiguity that depends on the perspective and experiences of the person putting it in use.