Day 2: Fear

Seize errors. The sound mind acknowledges inadequacy. Do not ever cease from stretching beyond contentment.
Be confident when taking the stumbling steps forward. Your true character also grows from your defeats. Always strive.

For day 2, I have chosen to do a a specialized Oulipo, specifically a Syllabically incremental thesauric reflective septet, based on a saying on fear by Benjamin Franklin.

An Oulipo is a fairly open form of poetry (invented in the 60's) which applies numerical restrictions to the construction of the poem. It also encourages the use of existing phrases or poems as the basis for new works.

I am conceptually paralleling the original saying and breaking it down into seven concepts:

Do not fear | mistakes. | You | will know | failure. | Continue | to reach out.

By syllabically incremental, I mean that the number of syllables in each parallel concept increase by one until it reaches the set number. In my case I am choosing to limit myself to seven concepts.

To satisfy my interpretation of the challenges requirements, I have repeated the exercise to create a second line, but with a modification. In the second line continue to parallel the concepts but reflect the pattern by reversing the cascade, beginning with seven syllables and working back to one.

Here is the conceptual breakdown (going from one syllable to seven, then seven to one.) The first concept of each line below aligns to the first concept in the original phrase, onto the seventh.:

Seize | errors. | The sound mind| acknowledges | inadequacy. | Do not ever cease from |stretching beyond contentment.
Be confident when taking | the stumbling steps forward. | Your true character | also learns from | your defeats.| Always | strive.