My Story With Failure

Geraldine was born into a wealthy, loving and happy family. Her parents' only child, she had a happy childhood with parents who were there for her. The young Geraldine was happy to have a life full of privilege and prestige. Despite her parents' professional obligations, they are there for their daughter. This love and attention that her parents give her, will naturally allow her to be an exemplary and brilliant student at school and to succeed in finding an excellent professional path after her university studies. In her everyday life, she is cheerful, full of life and empathetic. She feels only positive emotions. In this extension of happiness, she met Bertrand Beaumont one night through a friend: it was love at first sight. In love, the two got married a few months later. Geraldine was over the moon! She lived a real fairy tale with a husband, friends and family who loved her. She wished only one thing, "that the fairy tale would continue."However, a tragedy breaks the rhythm of this virtuous life. Bertrand, her husband, died of a stroke. He was only 32 years old. Geraldine is in shock. She sinks into a deep depression. She feels guilty. This failure will then plunge her into a real fragility. She will thus pass from the jovial and full of life woman that she was, to a person of anxious, melancholic and solitary. She is now filled with many negative thoughts that even lead her to have suicidal thoughts. Her loved ones come to her rescue, but there is no solution. She has only one desire: to cut herself off from the world and withdraw into herself. She does this because all the solutions she dares to try are not satisfying. It is then that she will decide to live in autarky, refusing any outside help. Fortunately, during this withdrawal, she will then manifest an introspection which pushes her to observe and analyze herself in order to find the useful resources to get out of this negative spiral. It is in this perspective that she becomes aware of the importance of failure and its value in her life. Thanks to other methods, which she sets up herself, she will manage to overcome this difficult ordeal and to recreate a happy and fulfilled life.