It's OK to fail.

I've gone through my whole life thinking that I have to be the best at everything I do. I need to be the smartest person in the room and I need to get the best grades. Through elementary school and high school, I've always had good grades, been on the honor roll, barely having to try. Since being in college, I'm realizing that things aren't going to come as easy to me. You can put in all the effort in the world and try your hardest, and still not succeed.

It's OK to fail.

If you don't do as well as you had hoped on an exam, or maybe you fail a class, it's going to be okay. It's not the end of the world if you don't immediately succeed at something. Sometimes you need to put in more work, just remember to never give up. Life will go on, days will pass on, and in the future you'll look back and remember how heartbroken you were about failing an exam, and realize that it really didn't matter as much as you thought.

It's OK to fail.

You work on your resume for weeks, proofreading over and over again, making sure you don't miss anything that could help you land your dream job. You go on what seems like endless job interviews, making good impressions and thinking "I got this". Yet, time after time, you're left with disappointment, wondering if someone will just give you a chance.

It's OK to fail.

Some people expect the best from themselves, or maybe they have family putting all this pressure on them. If you know that you put your best effort into something. If you know that you absolutely tried your best, then it's okay to fail. It's okay to not be good at everything you do. What's not okay though, is giving up. Never give up on what you want. Never allow yourself to settle. If you want something, keep going, If you fail, keep trying.

Whether it's related to school, your job, or something in your everyday life, always remember:

It's OK to fail.