Failing or struggling?

Due to emptiness in my schedule, I have a lot of time to watch TV. For this moment I have some series that I could not miss such as Love beyond the frontier, bread, love and dream and army wives season five. While I was watching TV this evening, I captured something from one of the series. “You are not failing, you are struggling” General Holden (army wives).  This was what he said to his daughter about failing and struggling, from his perspectives we are not failing if we are not give up of something and that is call struggling. For me it makes sense. 

In the series, he intended to tell his daughter that we cannot say that we are failing when we are still trying to adapt with something or trying overcoming the failure, we are actually struggling. As long as we are trying to do something about the failure we are not failing. In fact, failure is a mother of success. So, what is the actual meaning for these two words?  

Failing is a fault or a weak point that makes someone or something less effective, while struggling is experiencing difficulty, especially financial difficulty. These definitions are both from Macmillan dictionary. When we fail obviously we do not try to overcome our weaknesses that we realize as our source of failing. But when struggling, we may only face with the difficulties because we are trying to get out from the failing zone; we are only trying to move our self as far as we can from the problem or any obstacle we need to encounter. 

Thus, when we are facing with some difficulties, we should really struggle to find out the solution for it not to drown with the problems that will keep coming if we cannot deal with it. Admitting the problems make it easy for us to deal with it and try to find the resolution for it. You better struggle for something than failing with something. Failing is not the end of the battle; you will only fail when you let the failing to overpower your will.