They say there is nothing worse than the feeling of failure. But I know that is not true. It's the flight before the fall that tortures you the most.
You know that you have slipped up, you know that you are falling, you know that you will crash and you know how much it will shatter you but there is nothing you can do about it. There is no safe way to land, whatever you do you will get hurt. There is no one to catch you.
As you are inches away from plummeting to your demise, that fleeting moment of hopelessness and the anxiety for what will happen next is what makes failure truly agonizing.
