In the New York Times article, “Lessons From Failure”, it explains how students and teenagers now a days are being hand fed by their parents every step of the way in their life. This article explains that middle school, high school, and college students still rely on their parents to remind them of important dates and deadlines that they have. Failure and making mistakes could become your best friend in the future. If you don;t make mistakes and are not confronted for those mistakes, how can someone expect to learn from those mistakes and make sure that they never happen again? Failure is a natural part of life and everyone should encounter it every so often. Nobody is perfect, everyone is human, which means that everyone is going to make mistakes and hopefully learn from them.