Why is it...

[DPS]

Why is it I remember the routes and mountains I have failed on more than the one's I have succeded in climbing? Anyone else like this?

[catbirdseat]

That's completely understandable. You remember unfinished business. You run stuff through your mind again and again, about how you might have done differently.

[sexual_chocolate]

Is climbing an activity that is borne of love, or a need to prove one's self-worth? I see both motives at work within myself, and perhaps everyone I have ever climbed with.

 

When it becomes more of the latter, my climbing goes to pot. I become more competitive with others, I don't wish for their success, I harbor resentment and crappy feelings about myself, and all I can dwell on are the "failures". It seems pretty funny when I'm out of that cycle, but during it, it sucks!

[lummox]

you got issues. maybe your parents disciplined you too harshly.

[sexual_chocolate]

everyone got issues, and yeah they probably did.

[wayne]

Dan I think we learn more from the "failures" . How else we gonna remmber the stupid shit?

[Norman_Clyde]

I never felt this way when I was younger, but from my current perspective life's failures can deepen the meaning of one's existence more than successes. More than easy successes, anyway... really, any endeavor where you have to draw on your deepest reserves, to go where you haven't had to go, adds to your life regardless of whether you succeed or fail in the end.

[Dru]

I remember when I had a good time, or a bad time. I can't particularly say I remember my failures more than my successes but I would say that after getting defeated, I become more motivated to succeed on a particular line. I think it's only natural to want to overcome the climbs that present more of a challenge. There are definitely a couple lines that I have been bouted on that are top of the list for a 2006 rematch.

[Bronco]

Why is it I remember the routes and mountains I have failed on more than the one's I have succeded in climbing? Anyone else like this?

 

Because you suck.

 

Nope.

 

Merry Christmas.

[kix]

I don't remember the name of anything. even the stuff I named. but I remember everything I have fallen from that remains incompleted although they are referred to most often as 'that one' or 'you know the one by the thing' or 'over by that other one, up the hill'. I may not remember their name, but I remember their face.

[thenumber3]

Maybe it's cause the routes that are failures on are often the most exciting... Most of my failures occured because things went horribly wrong and I got scarred shitless - thus they tend to stick out in my head.

[Drederek]

Failure is weakness entering the body. Who wants to be weak?