Delight becomes Pictorial

                                                 

These pictures are ads for games that popped up on my phone while I was playing another game. Obviously the computer did not successfully conquer the game, but rather FAILED instead. Without sounding too sensitive, I feel the word FAIL is a rather harsh word to use if someone doesn’t win at a game. I don’t know if there are more children, teens or adults playing these games, but FAIL is such a turn off to me. I think it has such a negative connotation that is way too critical for the player. What about “try again” or “good try”?

I was watching a TED Talk recently given by a teacher of 30(+) years. One day a young boy approached her after he had gotten his test back and said what is this number here? I got 18 out of 20 wrong. And she said, “But honey, you got two right.” And she had written a +2 on his paper rather than a -18. The way we approach people and the positivity we bring with us when we do says a lot about our character. It can also change the way another person feels about themselves. I think all teachers should give pluses instead of minuses, but that’s just me. How much better would children feel about themselves?

It’s also all about perspective. One day a young girl says to her mom, “Mom, I want to be an astronaut.” And her mom replies, “But honey, to be an astronaut you have to spend years in school, be super smart, spend lots of money and beat out alot of other little kids.” The girl replies back, “Mom, that’s just four things.”

This wins the prize for shortest blog I have ever written but, I just wanted to say, the phone people need to change the word FAIL to something else and we need to change our perspective on life. If you change the way you look at things, you things you look at change.

Title is a poem by Emily Dickinson.