Failure is real and it’s scary. For me, the failure of my restaurant business MissChu was a highly public and humiliatingly brutal end, signifying the collapse of all my hopes and dreams. It was a torrent of shame; the knots in my stomach, insomnia and depression are all too real and only half the battle. To deny that failure exists is like refusing to admit defeat after a walloping on the sporting field.
Failing in life is painful with real ramifications. When you’ve applied yourself and pursued a passion that did not work out, it’s soul-destroying. You feel a sense of futility about life, a destabilising loss of direction and diminished self-worth.
The process of bouncing back from a public failure is just as hard, if not more difficu…
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