As children, we learn to get up when we fall, brush ourselves off, and try one more time. We scrape our knees and continue on to do something else entirely stupid. We take risks, and we grow as a result of our trials and triumphs. But one thing adults never tell you when you’re a kid: failure is imminent. You will fall on your face (metaphorically and physically), and not always gracefully. It will happen often, and there’s really nothing we can do about it. At some point — maybe not today or even tomorrow — you will colossally mess up. It will hurt; it might even seem devastating. Yet,…