4 not 5 - I'm still paying them back, and the maintenance man went to Harvard. #realstories #funny

5 major fuck-ups I've made, but I'm still standing now and running a business. I needed my parents to bail me out of a whole bunch of bad debt when I was in my mid-20s, and I'm aware of how much of a privilege that is to have that kind of support. When I was working for a company in my early 20s, I cost them about $10,000 in errors because I was too scared to talk about a mistake I made. Because of that mistake, I was demoted and almost fired. I failed a semester at university and I had to repeat a whole year, and it was really embarrassing at the time. When I was doing my gap year, when I was 19, I was almost fired because I hooked up with one of the maintenance men. I was almost sent home. They are some of the highlight fuck-ups, and I've made plenty more, but I'm still standing. I think a lot of us are so afraid of failure. We're so concerned that if something goes wrong or if something doesn't go to plan, everything's going to crumble and the whole world will fall apart. Yes, there might be some repercussions. Yes, there might be some consequences, but at the end of the day, you're going to be okay and you're going to get through it and you're going to come out the other side and you're going to be a stronger, wiser, and just better person overall because of it.