Failure is Not Inevitable

According to Rollo May, "Depression is the inability to construct a future". Depression is one of the leading causes that people fail and do not recover from their failures. If people do not learn from their failures and it just brings them down, they will not gain anything from it, and they become hopeless. Sometimes people feel alienated and feel like they cannot fit in anywhere, like Holden Caulfield in J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. Throughout this novel, Holden became more and more detached from everyone, and when he finally knew his dream of becoming the "catcher" was not realistic, he broke down and ended up in a mental hospital. Holden is a good example of "The Dark Side of Failure", because he just gave up and he felt like he did not have anything or anyone left. Luckily, this type of failure is easier than others to overcome, because the only direction people can go is up. For example, in Thomas Peter's Accepted, the main character opens up a college for failing students who do not become accepted into other colleges. The main character gives failing students hope to overcome one of the biggest obstacles in their lives, and he makes them feel like they belong somewhere. These students were considered failures, but it did not take much for them to obtain a little of their hope back. What other ways can people overcome failure?