Rats and Failure

Ok, I have found two articles in the past week which I think are incredibly relevant to my Peace Corps experience which I highly encourage you to read.  

The first one is a little more thoughtful, so read that one first:
"Maybe everyone needs a period in their lives when they barely recognize themselves."
 What the Peace Corps taught me about failure.


And now that you are depressed/introspective, here is the second one. It's what I have often found myself thinking due to my many experiences with Ceiling Creatures (click here for the backstory if you don't know it) :


"I’m going to scurry over to this side of the crawlspace. Now, I’m going to scurry to the other side. What should I do now? I think I’ll scurry back to the other side of the crawlspace.  I may not even be a rat. I might be a bear cub. From the volume of noise I produce, the thump of my paws on the ceiling, you’re becoming increasingly certain I’m a bear cub who somehow became trapped in this crawlspace."

The Inner Monologue of the Rat in my Ceiling