Eating Today's Forbidden Fruit

The term forbidden fruit originates from the biblical story of Adam and Eve. The paraphrased version is, Adam and Eve were to avoid eating the fruit from one tree. They didn't, which resulted in them being cast from paradise into a life of sickness and death. Here "forbidden fruit" represents failure, and instead of avoiding the fruit, you're encouraged to indulge!

Will Smith said it best in his viral Instagram post, "failure is a massive part of being able to be successful." Smith has blown up on the social media platform over the past year due to his inspirational posts. In the same video he elaborates on failure with "fail early, fail often, fail forward."

Failure is a critical step in obtaining heaven on earth. In fact, you will repeat this same step over and over again. Everyone experiences failure, but not everyone embraces it how they should.

Society has embedded into our brains that failure cannot be overcome. "Avoid failing by playing it safe" family and friends may say to you, but they fail (pun intended) to mention that the result of repeated failure is a succulent reward. Failure has become the forbidden fruit in our world today. People steer clear of potential failed situations. Unlike the forbidden fruit Adam and Eve reveled in that gave them death, our forbidden fruit today gives us more life. Just ask Drake who said, "...never let failure get to your heart."

If it's within arms reach, why not go for it? Every one is bound to fail, so there's no point in waiting around for the "perfect" time to screw up. Get ahead of those who shy away from failure. You won't regret it.

Ask someone you hold in high regard how they came to be so good at what they do. I'm willing to bet they say failure was a key component in their rise to greatness.

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default." -J.K. Rowling

I'm almost positive there's nothing more true than that.