success versus failure 4/28/16

there is this phrase,

“success is just failure that hasn’t happened yet”.

or the converse,

“failure is just success that hasn’t happened yet”.

is this pessimism versus optimism?

the seduction is neither but acceptance of the premise itself.

framing in this way as a perspective style 

accepts the confines offered.

being results-oriented as the payoff diminishes the worth 

of each moment 

by living for a future that will somehow pay off 

or reward the expectations harnessed from the past in doing so.

premise as frame, devalues this moment and its richness 

for the promise of entanglements that bind the story being told 

to a way of life that limits both self awareness 

and also creates an emotional hostage kept alive 

via past and futures

that do not permit a presence in the moment to evolve. 

Preoccupation with pasts and futures, however constructed, 

make the present ‘a contingency of spent-ness’ offered up 

as the realism of the moment 

when truly that moment or this moment as it is, 

is buried in orientations and perceptual styles 

that vacate the possibility of presence in this moment 

for a projection of presence that is orchestrated with preoccupation as the driver. 

If the world of expectancy is a given 

and the skill sets applied are of that nature, 

then the observance of now is on a check list to be checked off 

and the rest of now is just filled with un-essentials of a distractive nature 

and the arrival of the impending or anticipated is the reward 

which takes us back into the premise conflict 

as results are designed to prove one’s worth.

there is this phrase,

“success is just failure that hasn’t happened yet”.

or the converse,

“failure is just success that hasn’t happened yet”.

is this pessimism versus optimism(?)

as a way of consciousness

as a functional evolutionary life?