since we mention fail!
I recently failed my Instrument checkride and I can tell you that I was by no means saddened nor angry since I've learned that failure isn't as bad as DYING while flying. An examiners job is to make sure you don't go out and kill yourself in the processes and therefore should you manage a blunder on your checkride then at least you had the chance to do it before you actually went out and did it by yourself.
Several people out there have failed something somewhere and most of them are good hearted cheerfull folk who didn't treat it as a complete fail, they learned to view it as gaining experience and tell their freinds stories of how they managed to botch up that test flight.
A fail need not be negative, if you learned from your failure, isn't it better to fail rather than passing a test when you should not have passed it due to safety issues or because you did it the wrong way but still got the pass?
(hope you understand what I mean)
I can share the pain of failing anything but I won't kick myself for weeks on end because of it. I'll kick myself maybe for a day and then enjoy life again.
Of course this doesn't mean I won't post some rant about how I failed my sim check or what not!
