Failure and Rejection

I have had substantial interest shown in my blog. And I am humbled and thankful for that! To date, and still counting, I have had over 1500 page views and that's just from Sunday when I started this forum. A very dear close friend, who happens to be a client, suggested that because of the large internet traffic I'm generating I apply "Ad-sense" to my blog in order to generate another source of income. They in turn responded and here is their email...

adsense-support@google.com	4:26 PM (2 hours ago)
to me

Hello LLoyd Campbell,

Thank you for your interest in Google AdSense. After reviewing your
application, our specialists have found that it does not meet our program
criteria. Therefore, we are unable to accept you into our program.

We have certain policies in place that we believe will help ensure the
effectiveness of Google ads for our publishers as well as for our
advertisers. We review all publishers, and we reserve the right to decline
any application. As we grow, we may find that we are able to expand our
program to more web publishers with a wider variety of web content.

Please note that we may not be able to respond to inquiries regarding the
specific reasons for our decision. Thank you for your understanding.

Sincerely,

The Google AdSense Team

Which got me to thinking about how people deal with rejection and failure in their lives....

I have always regarded criticism and failure as a road to success. If you have not encountered either in your life you have not GROWN personally. I have had many failures and many successes, But it's actually the failures I end up valuing more, because you are able LEARN something VALUABLE of yourself. Without failure you cannot develop further. 

I had a friend on Facebook who posted one day that he had never failed anything in his life other than his driving license and his Quantum Physics exam and he was pondering what that meant to him as a person...WHAT THE FUCK??? It means you are HUMAN!!!!!! Without failure we do not LEARN! We need to be challenged! Life would be very mundane and boring without it! You would not VALUE what you have achieved or LOST! It would have NO significance to you or other's around you. Just because you think of yourself as intelligent does not make you intelligent enough to AVOID failure. Nor does thinking you are stupid! Neither makes you immune to the fact that learning from the experience makes you SUCCEED! 

"One small step for man, one GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND!"