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On the surface, the popular rhetoric around failure lifts the taboo by reframing failure as a ubiquitous experience and learnable skill; however, without critical engagement and efforts to create counter-stories, failure and resilience rhetorics operate as a discourse of white privilege. Failure experiences that do not make the imperative turn toward success are the unspeakable failures, unspeakable because we lack language or support systems for experiences that do not rebound quickly and consistently into forward movement. By developing responses that are analytical and reflective, and by unpacking the rhetorical construction of the failure stories that are shared publicly, we can explore ways to better understand and voice the unspeakable failures.  \nAsflaeegradtingugaoted stwuhdento offe, thrseosptoporrytofuniKty,airosin a cflaaptshi,vattodhme beo—ldthatandfipcrkelepaarnded Tracing the legend of opportunity through centuries of artwork and literature, I discovered that the god Kairos is often portrayed as the goddess Occasio. As a young white woman and the first in my family to attend graduate school, I felt a kinship with Occasio based in my deepest and quietest desires. Just by attending graduate school, I felt like I had seized the goddess of opportunity, but I constantly feared that she would slip away. I met my fear face-to-face when I discovered Metanoia, the female figure who inhabits the realm of missed opportunity and regret. But the experience of metanoia, I later learned, always involves regret and transformation—a “change of mind or heart” catalyzed by regret, repentance, remorse (Liddell and Scott 1115) . As a graduate student, the transformative dimension of metanoia sparked feelings of hope and possibility.  \nMaybe missed opportunities can serve as openings.  \nMaybe I don’t need to carry the weight of fear and shame heavily in my body.  \nMaybe there is a different story to tell about opportunity.  \nI spent a decade, in my research and teaching, working to expand the story of Kairos by reclaiming regret and missed opportunity as generative experiences.  \nIn earlier work, I framed metanoia as a missing piece in conversations about kaiComposition Studies 47.2 (2019): 48–67  \nros and I imagined what it could mean to “seize metanoia.” I envisioned richly variegated paths of metanoic experience, but the kairos story still dominated my thinking; I could not see my way out of it. I kept defaulting to metanoiaas a learning process through which “a rhetor becomes better prepared for the next moment of opportunity”(“Metanoia and the Transformation” 11) . I was trying to understand experiences around and beyond kairos, but I failed to question the underlying narrative of success. I stuck to the script, lining the road to success with metanoic moments.  \nOver time, I started to see the consequences of looping metanoia into kairos. I realized that my metanoia-based pedagogy, aimed at expanding opportunity for writers, risked putting students in an even more vulnerable position. For many of my students, the concept of metanoia is freeing. Amber Sutherland, for example, a student who took my upper-division nonfiction workshop in 2016, shared,“Metanoia allowed me to embrace regret, which opened up a huge new world for me with my writing and the way I think. Embracing the regret that metanoia gives you allows you to be comfortable with where you are, and who you are, and who you were before” (Myers et al.). For Amber, embracing regret opened up new possibilities, but I started to wonder about the voices I was not hearing. And then, as time passed, I started to wonder why the once enthusiastic voices—like Amber’s—were fading from the conversation.  \nWhat about ","cbCaivBD4jlMDl1T","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivBD4jlMDl1T","pdf",139212,"English","# Introduction\n## Failure rhetoric and the problem of counter-stories\n## Metanoia, regret, and opportunity\n## From metanoia to kairos and its consequences\n## Unspeakable failures and privilege","[{\"question\":\"What makes certain failure experiences “unspeakable” in this text?\",\"answer\":\"Failure is “unspeakable” when it cannot make the imperative turn toward success, leaving people without language or support systems. 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