POWER OF FAILURE

FAILURE, an English dictionary word meant for rejections, isolations, is not more than a criminal act in minds of sleepwalking society. Sadly, The moment we hear the word “FAILURE” for they start making an image of a stranger in their minds, image of a  LOSER you don’t want to associate with,.

Contrary, to this I would like to share an experience of a workshop attended by me which left an indelible mark on my mind. As I sat in the workshop with some entrepreneurs trying to gain my attention to their life of roller coaster of failures, seldom with showering flowers, I FELT INSPIRED.

Inspiration usually comes with failures and many nincompoops fail to understand how motivational failure is. As I look up to men like, RISHABH GUPTA and PRANAY SWARUP who gave up their pocket overflowing jobs to motivate and intern students, and do something different. , and this is how their journey of failures began.

“DOWN YET NOT FAILED, NOTHING IN HAND YET DILIGENT”

Although people hate to be labeled a “FAILURE” and look up for people who did wonders, failed to understand the power of failure behind it.

 

As I type a word FAILURE, the first search results I get is ABRAHAM LINCOLN.DEFEATED in 1938.1943, 1946, 1948, 1955, 1958, and finally succeeded in 1960 to become the president.

Imagine if he succumbed to failure and dejections in 1938. We would have missed a legend. Failure helps us to improve, know mistakes and learn from opportunities and most importantly tests your patience to deal with situations and make you perfect.

 

A line which comes to my mind right now is “PERFECTION WITHOUT FAILURES IS NEVER PERFECTION,”

People look for successful men, companies look for experienced, a woman look for a successful idiot, citizens look for a LEADER.

Strange but true, no one wants to be with a failure or sometimes even learner.

 

Another day , I went for a small interview in my college, inexperienced as I was, I didn’t clear the interview and all I heard was ,” I won’t go around the college rewarding for failing ,I want experience.”

People are so obsessed with PERFECTION that they fail to reward the one who tries and here INDIA gives you solutions with CORRUPTION.

Once labeled "failed", people try hook and crook to succeed, be it a heinous act.

I would like to quote an instance when I had to sit for a written exam, and all I found in the paper was weird questions like “what are your positive traits, tell me something about your experience in this field.”

I feel I am so paranoid with the word “EXPERIENCE” that I almost knew I couldn’t get through; still I gave it a try.

All I did was brag, lie and try to overestimate myself.

And suddenly one fine day, sipping ice tea, I got a SMS saying “sorry, you didn’t clear”

I felt so bad, inside me was a turmoil, that why is that I m FAILING in everything and anything I try because what I wrote was all they wanted in the paper.

And I got my answer, I cheated, I lied and that day I felt being an INDIAN.

           

I don’t understand whole idea of being ashamed of failing. We should make sure you told everyone I FAILED when you couldn’t win because all that signifies that at least you tried, better than those ignorant couch potatoes sitting and criticizing.

People usually have misconception that these words usually are said in self-defense by failures.

But all I can say is vulture eyes never leave you alone , stay up and stretch the next time you fail in college or somewhere else just remember,

 

Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your
life…the most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they
wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year
olds I know still don’t.

 

 

ALL I END UP with FEW LINES OF MY POEM:

Yes I want to do it now
and I wonder n wonder over the dilemma of how.
Series of disasters and failures
never let me down on my face
but deep in the heart I feel left out in the race
I tried telling and all I hear,
was the next time don't fear.
I set out trying my hand sewing the web
like the spider who never wept.
I tried climbing and I already fell
and sometimes I wasn't even allowed to rise,
I want a freedom from failures.