Finding success in failure

Climbing in a harness gives safety in failure and encourages you  to push your boundaries

I wanted to start climbing for a myriad of reasons (to get stronger, fight fear of heights, stop hiding my body, define myself athletically, learn to fight fear, gain a positive association with hard work, learn how to hurt) but one of the things I did not expect to be working on so strongly is gaining a positive relationship with failing. 
When you are climbing the whole system of ropes and harnesses at first seems to be there only as safety, but what it actually is, is a FAIL SAFE.  Funny how I have never thought of what that means until right now. Fail safe. A system in place to make it safe to fail. A system where failure is encouraged. 
Today I took my first real fail climbing, I went up, I went for a big reach, i missed and I fell. But instead of panic?

I swung out and back and grabbed the wall. I took a moment to re assess and went again. I got stuck, I got tired and I fell again. This time I came down. 
I was elated. 
HOW FRUSTRATING I DIDN'T MAKE IT!!! HOW AWESOME THAT I TRIED!! I WILL CONQUER YOU WALL!!!!! YOU AND I WILL MEET AGAIN!
As I raise the difficulty of what I am trying to climb I am seeing more of these spots, where the push is farther than I would like. Where the path isn't as obvious and I have to stop and re assess. Where I have to backtrack the path because I went the wrong way. And I find it all so stimulating. Its asking me to take challenge and pride from my failures. To try new things and see what happens. To push my body to its limits and see where they are....then ask for more. 
Fail fast so you can try again
Fail safe so failing isn't devastating. 
Feel good you failed, you found a limit. Try again.