Try Plan B

So okay, Plan A didn't work. Turn to Plan B or the new Plan A. There are some who spend a lot of time ranting and agonizing over the fact that Plan A didn't work: whose to blame, what didn't work, what is a mess, how awful the future will be. Hey, there IS a Plan B. So waste no more time on Plan A. Forget it. Get right into Plan B. Look at it as something better and challenging and a scene that will work out. Not shall but will. We were made with our important stuff at the fronts of our heads: noses, mouths, eyes and ears directed that way. What's at the back? Nothing much to worry about. It follows wherever the front part decides to go. So let's follow what nature put there. Move on ahead. Forget Plan A and make B the better one. We can spend a lot of time and energy blabbing to everyone in sight why the first plan didn't work and why you think it didn't. Strangely, it seldom is the fault of anyone. It's just chance. Life is like that, things work or they don't, but if they don't, we have to carry on. Regardless. Giving up is not only wasting all the work you put into the first plan that didn't work while it could be used to bulk up, the second,  Plan B. Make some tweaks, add in something else, take out what was wrong and come up with another tactic. It might be a lot better in the long run. Sure, it may not fit in as easily as the first stab at it, but what have you got to lose?  Salvage the good bits, make new ones and move on. In our lifetimes we all err. It's human. There are folks who err and spend the whole rest of their only gift, life, in regret and sorrow. It's a choice. But when you come to the end of your journey, and all you have to claim is how long and well you grieved over something, it isn't much of a legacy. It's how you overcame those bad things that makes you the good person you are. You don't have to fix everything. That might be just too much. You need to try; that's all. It isn't victory over what you couldn't do but how hard you tried to get over it, that counts.