Fall on your Butt and Still be Nationally Revered?

So I woke up around 2:30 this morning and couldn't get back to sleep. What's a girl to do? Watch the Olympics, of course! So, until 5 or 5:30, I watched and actually felt my eyes getting redder and redder. I caught some swimming but mostly women's gymnastics.

One of the women, you know who she is, fell off the beam, fell on her butt on the floor, and then stepped out of bounds on the floor. They won the silver medal for teams. She quite literally fell on her butt twice, is the reason that the team didn't win gold, but is still so accomplished! How many people have worked so hard and never gotten it? Who has been too afraid to even try?

The men won bronze a couple days ago. I was really pulling for Raj, on the men's team. He's my age, and he came SO CLOSE to making the team last Olympic cycle but fell short. I was really pulling for him. His Olympic team was my bar exam.

So, I'm trying to focus on the fact that I was so brave to move 2400 miles from home into a crappy neighborhood (emphasis on "hood"), to incur some $160,000 in debt, and to be brave enough to face the bar not once, not twice, but three times. I'm still praying I passed this time. But maybe I should try to be my own hero for a while. I've fallen on my butt a couple times, but I still pulled myself back up, did my best on that stupid executive powers essay question and the overly and unnecessarily hard MBE, faced my fears and hopefully fought them back for good this time. I want to be someone else's hero, so maybe I should start by being my own hero. If that makes any sense.