I have not had many or significant failures in life, but not being able to complete events or losing in a competition is failure to me. May it be small things that don’t matter to others but they seem heart breaking to me. I always want to be on top of everything that leads me up to my standards. My eyes haven’t cried upon failure but I also don’t want them that to happen ever in my life.
Over these years I have seen many instances in my father’s life that have taught me to live life in a cautious way and also added attrition into me. I had read a quote written by Shah Rukh Khan; ‘Success isn’t a good teacher, failure makes you …show more content…
I am successful it doesn’t completely mean that my child will also be successful. Whatever I am doing or capable of doing with this alacrity and enthusiasm is not because of success but I have always been terrified of failure. I don’t want as much to succeed as much as I don’t want to be bashed by failure. All in all I believe that true path to success is through the fear of failure. If you aren’t scared enough of failing in life, you are equally unlikely to succeed. It’s not pleasant to fail; it’s very tough. We should use it as a weapon to succeed.
Not failing doesn’t make you successful but the reaction towards failure helps to buffer the experiences that you’ve had. I have one response to failure-pragmatism, being pragmatic that if one door has closed other will surely open. Failure gives me an incentive to hit it back harder. Failure has given me clarity of sticking to myself and snatched me away from distracting me from the core. Failure is a fiendish friend it lets you know who your real friends are and the strength of your relationship is tested in strong …show more content…
A reporter asked a bank president the secret of success, “Right decision”, he replied, “How do you get to know how to make right decisions?” asked the reporter. “Experience”, the president answered. “Well, how do you get experience from?” asked the investigator. “Wrong decisions”, he replied. Life has more to offer and is more than a list of acquisitions and attainments or CVs and qualification, is complicated and beyond our mind’s control. The humility to understand this fact will help you survive its vicissitudes.
So just remember, to be true within and thank to be fortune to a funambulist- who has an amazing set of punching bags. And failures as a fiendish friend, keep him close, and take no shit from