How bad of me! I tried hard yet I have failed in my exams. My heart is aching to think that my all friends have passed but I alone am left to drag behind. I am feeling lonely, but I don’t want to meet anyone, because they will ask about my exams.
Edward
If you are a fellow in action – unsatisfactory results can come your way. And over this you might stew, worry or better – run into depression like fictitious Edward.
BANG.Actually this is the perfect opportunity for you to grow, improve, succeed and enjoy life in earnest.
Agree not with the above statement. agreeing with it without putting it to pass the test of understanding won’t be useful. Hmm, let us test the whole success-failure thing.
Is snaching superb marks the true success? But you might say many in the successful chunk such as Charles Dickens and Suchin Tendulkar had irregular studies.
Is landing on high-status jobs the true success? Now you might tell me the names of Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Albert Einstein – not to name Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela.
But, folks around us get stuck with such stupid, incorrect view of success – consequently depriving themselves from achieving the true success. Never allow those folks to put their unrealistic view into your head.
From whence then comes the true success?
The real success gushes forth from the passion to move on with a joyous heart even if besieged with failures.
Thomas Edison failed more than a thousand times before inventing the electric bulb. He said, "I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward."
A predominant characteristic of ultimate achievers is that at every failure they eliminate ineffective techniques and keep on implementing new methods till they snatch success.
If you, in true sense, want to be successful – alter your perception of success. Don’t worry over small failures because they often prevent a person with talent to achieve true success.
There are people who have suffered huge failures but did not allow self-guilt to impede their actions.
You all know the war of Cargill in which Pakistan suffered a shameful defeat. Pervez Musharraf was the person to lead the Pakistani army to retreat. Instead of drowning in self-guilt or shame, he overthrew the democratically elected government and took the reins in his hands.
Place yourself in his situation – had you been able to face your countrymen and international media after such a debacle?
Only those who think that they have failed, fail. But those who choose to strive against odds emerge successful.
