"Sweet Honey From My Old Failures"

Last night, as I was sleeping,

I dreamt – marvelous error! –

That I had a beehive

Here inside my heart.

And the golden bees

Were making white combs

And sweet honey

From my old failures.

- Antonio Machado, translated by Robert Bly

I hate making errors. Especially difficult is receiving negative feedback. It's so hard to believe that everyone doesn't love me, and love everything that I do. What can they be thinking? This was a really...