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A SI was interviewing my sister about failure, she said; “Failure is an ability to not excel in something.” I feel like failure is allowing me to start over and excel more than before. I know a lot of people may be against this because failure is like a disease that isn’t accepted by many humans as it is associated with humiliation and embarrassment, and that isn’t easy to digest. Indeed, the people we look up to have encountered downfall but that hasn’t stopped them from achieving what they’ve been yearning for since day one.
SCHOOL
I’ve surely been down before, if I were to mention a thing or two. At school I’ve never been the smartest kid on the block, I repeated classes and this did not only bring humiliation to me, but also to those around me, especially my parents. When I had to go back to school and try again to make up my results for university qualifications, I had to face those who believed in me, that I had the potential to make it with distinctions. It was all an embarrassment. I had to face, and calm myself down because I had faith in myself and that failure meant nothing to my inner being, even though my outer being was so crushed.
DECISION
Nothing beats the decision one makes for themselves. It takes a noble man to analyze the power of a decision. I am a writer and it is my work to observe and understand things, but when I failed my Form V I felt worthless and meaningless. I had to wake up and smell the coffee that I didn’t make, but I can still do it. I had to decide and plan my life to be what I want. I always say, ‘never forget the life you promised yourself ’ ailure can mean that you are a failure, nothing you ever do can bring a positive outcome. That you are a loser, how can you fail when you’ve studied while others pass. That is the kind of question that come up when one encounters disappointment.
Failure exposes the monster that lives within every one of us, which we try in everyday life to bury. Achievement brings about the most joy and peace but what happens when we meet failure? A demon appears.
CHANCE
Failure can mean that you have been given a chance to shine brighter and prove to the world that life can knock you down but you can still rise.
If you can have a chat with one of the prominent persons in the country, you’d be amazed how much life knocked them down ,but still rose. And that’s what is important. Don’t listen to the whispers; that you are nothing.
You are everything in this world, even if you have nothing. When I look around my community, so many are not successful, but it is amazing how I still believe in their potential. No one is a failure or dumb, hence they can still make it in life.
They just need to find inspiration. When I found mine, it was everything I needed. Do you know why? I’m doing what is cherished by my heart and I’m always inspired when I write.
This world doesn’t need cowards because of our past. We all have ours but has time stopped us? No, so it shouldn’t stop you either. We start something, we finish it because we are not failures. By ignorance, we fail but with optimism we achieve. If you are too ambitious, you can achieve anything.
Doctors can crack what is causing disease in the body because they are passionate about their work in giving back to the community and making them research illnesses before they knock off. And you call the smart people. It doesn’t take a smart person to become a doctor but an ambitious soul.
Failure shouldn’t stop us from being known. We not doing it for fame but for the name of ourselves. For comments