abort, retry, fail? II

I thought abort, retry, fail? was a nice title. I remember the days when something in MS-DOS would crash out and that little message popped up asking what to do. I always wondered what precisely each of those things meant to the people who coded it. But I think it pertains to life as well. Obviously, or I wouldn't be writing about it. What is the difference between abort and fail? Aren't they essentially the same thing? I'm sure there's something somewhere which shows what they mean but maybe looking it up would destroy the magic.

I like to think of fail as in fail the current process and continue on. The one snag you seem to be hung up on is okay if you fail, it won't ruin everything else. No need to worry, no need to fret, everything else is running smoothly, let's see if we can continue despite this little bump in the road. Please continue. It's a brave choice. Trusting the outcome will be fine even with the mistakes made on the way.

I see abort as just that, abort, stop everything, end everything, the failure that has occurred is impossible to overcome and the thing cannot continue. Abort what you're doing, it's not working, something else needs to be done. That can also be a brave choice, in certain terms. Making changes if they're required and starting over is scary. 

Retry is easier to describe, just plain old retry. Retry, to me, assumes that everything is in fact correct and something with the quantum entanglement of the universe has made the process go awry. It is not necessarily the fault of the process, just bad timing. It assumes there is no error, which is also brave. 

If only life were as simple as coding. I suppose it can be unless I choose to complicate it, which I seem to do. I guess I think I make my life easier by making it more complicated which is pretty stupid. I just want to select abort a lot less.