“If you fail to prepare, you must prepare to fail.”

Other than being a neat little phrase, this actually applies to many areas in life. While a lot of people get away in life by ‘winging it’, we’re often told that it’s much better to prepare for things in order to give us the best chance. At the end of the day, this kind of thing is something that individuals must make up their own minds about; nobody has the right to tell you how to live your life, or what the boundaries of your life should be, might I add. 

I’m the kind of person who leans toward the side of ‘winging’. Having said that, I do believe that in certain cases preparation is everything, but in the majority of tests and tribulations that we will encounter in everyday life isn’t something you can plan for. After all, life isn’t an exam: you can’t revise for it. It’s all to do with dealing with pressure, and I tend to do things better when I’m driven by pressure. I get extremely irritated when people point out my faults, or tell me how I should do things, and this tends to translate itself into a passive anger, which gives me the motivation and passion to do things well. 

Fear of failure is something that everybody has; nobody likes to fail. Why is failure so feared? Well, humiliation is certainly a part of it, but failure makes you stronger. If you are willing to learn from your mistakes, then failure can be a good thing. 

This brings me back to the title of the post; true, it may be better off safe than sorry, but what I’m saying is that being sorry for something brings you back round to the very start of the argument. If you don’t prepare, you will fail, but in my view lack of preparation and subsequent failure (in any aspect of life) counts as preparation.