The process is important, so why is it that the "failure" of those we help in our jobs, in our lives, is so profound? Why is it that we feel so defeated? It's because we become so invested in the successes, the strengths, the struggles, that they become ours to bare. And I think that's okay, it's helpful, it demands a level of empathy to push us on, to keep us on the journey of helping. But let's not stay there, let's take in the struggles and the most difficult "failures" so we can examine the beauty of the process. Let's appreciate the lessons learned, the lessons taught, the battles won, the war we still fight. In every battle we fight, win or lose, there is still great value in the process, because if those we fight for, disappoint us or "fail," if we maintain the empathy that is demanded of us, we will undoubtedly recognize that those who "fail" us have even still made tremendous gains. Perhaps then, when they come...