Failure not an option
6 I was interviewing my sister about failure, she said µfailure is an ability to not e[cel in something’.
I feel like failure is allowing me to start over and e[cel 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 can 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 that I had the potential to make it with dis tinctions. It was all an embarrassment. I had to scold, and calm myself down because I had faith in myself and the failure meant nothing to my inner being, even though my outer being was so crushed.
DECISION
1othing beats the decision one makes for themselves. It takes a no bleman to analyse the power of a decision. I am a writer and it is my work to observe and understand things but when I failed my )orm 9, I felt worthless and meaningless.
I had to wake up and smell the cof fee 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, µ1ever forget the life you promised yourself’. )ailure can mean that you are a failure, nothing you ever do can bring a positive outcome. 7hat you are a loser, how can you fail when you’ve studied while others pass. 7hat is some kind of question that arouses when one encounters disappointment. )ailure e[poses 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 fail ure" A demon appears.
CHANCE
)ailure can mean that you have been given a chance to shine brighter and prove to the world that life can knock you down but still rise. If you can have a chat with one of the promi nent persons in the country, you’d be ama]ed how much life knocked them down but still they rose. And that’s what is important. Don’t listen to the whispers that you are nothing.