So you will take risks, and you will have failures. But it’s what happens afterward that is defining. A failure often does not have to be a failure at all. However, you have to be ready for it—will you admit when things go wrong? Will you take steps to set them right?—because the difference between triumph and defeat, you’ll find, isn’t about willingness to take risks. It’s about mastery of rescue.

(Source: newyorker.com)

FADE INTO TIME’

When all is said.
And done.

And my ashes
return
to dust.

The footsteps I
leave behind me
will fade into time.

They just will.

So might I make
the most of
these short days.

Might now be
my time to
live as only I can.

Fade into time poem was spotted at Nic’s blog.