Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Consistency

Does being consistently inconsistent count as being consistent? If so, I am the most consistent blogger out there... well, probably not. I'm sure there are thousands others who start blogging with the same good intent that I do, but like me fail miserably.

With that being said, I find the idea of failing to be an extremely interesting one. We measure failure by the absence of success. Failing is subjective and completely dependent upon the measure of success. Yet, even in its dependence, we magnify that which is dependent over that which is independent. In our own lives if failing could be defined as "missing the mark" (which incidentally enough is the literal definition of sin), then what is the mark? What is success? What does a successful life look like? It's funny; we know what a failed life looks like, a life that is defined by lacking something, a life that's dependent upon the lack of an idea. But, we don't necessarily know what a successful life looks like.

Just a thought.