failure

Misfortune follows us throughout our lives. Sometimes you're trying to insult a celebrity. Sometimes you're trying to skip in front of traffic like a douche. Sometimes you're trying to give a person a compliment, create a work of art or fix something to the best of your ability. On all sides of the spectrum, there is failure.

These failures deserve gold stars for their excellence in the fail category. They had one job to do, and couldn't quite manage to perform their responsibilities without failing. And damn, are we thankful for that. 

We're all desperately trying to succeed, look smart, and appear cool doing it. This doesn't happen as often as we like. Whether it's getting in over your head or just trying to be the expert on something you're unfamiliar with, failure will find a way. Here are some more times failure had its way.

These fails come from those temporarily emboldened individuals that thought they could get through life without making a mess of sh*t in the process. 

Life is full of earnest attempts. Sometimes you're trying to have a good time. Sometimes you're trying to tie down a four-wheeler to a truck bed. Sometimes you're just trying to joke around with your friends. With every attempt, there's a possibility for failure, and these folks did not escape it. Neither did these folks, either.

It's not every day that you make such a colossal mistake that you cost your employer over a million dollars in damage. Luckily for him, this wasn't even the worst case scenario. If you're into Navy humor, here's an awesome story of the bold moves over the laziest naval officer ever.

Yeah, being late to work or stepping in dog poop does suck, but things could be worse. You could be publicly humiliated, accidentally cause an enormous amount of property damage, or even come into mortal danger. Some unfortunate situations are more ridiculous or ironic than others. Chances are you aren't having all of this happen to you right now.

The successes of the world are propped up on a hulking heap of failure. So grab your failure shovels and get at that heap.

Life is full of attempts, large and small. Sometimes you're trying to make a good point in a friendly argument. Sometimes you're trying to make a wholesome PTA event. Sometimes you're just trying to look good. More times than you'd like, however, failure will follow.

Sometimes people fail to burn a spider and instead burn their house down. Sometimes people spectacularly fail to make their point. Sometimes people try to make a Flat Earth facebook page free of hilarious shit posts. Whatever the attempt, reality is bound to catch up.

Every time we try, we expect a specific result. But what happens when we don't try hard enough? We get results like these.

They have the largest collection of failed products in the world, all to show how important failure is in the process of innovation. Sounded like something we would be interested in.

These people all tried their best. However, life has a way of reminding us that sometimes our best is still not good.

Attempts are drawn toward failure like a magnet. In these cases, you can't say these people and animals didn't try. Could they have tried harder? Maybe.

Keep that chin up. That way you can see all the fails.