Fear Not – “FAILURE”

Fear Not – “FAILURE”

If you’re experiencing one of those moments, all looks lost, it certainly is the time to recoil. As long as you have the will, hope is never lost. Sometimes losing is the best step to a comprehensive win. One that will bear you through life on its shoulders.

The secret of life is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.” — Paulo Coelho
Let us face it. There WILL be failure in life, big or small. It is impossible to live without failing at something or the other. That is unless you live so cautiously or in constant fear. That means that you might as well not have lived at all. That essentially means that you have failed by default. Risk taking is what life is all about, even your life is just a chance. When you venture to take risks, you do so knowing that there will be times when you succeed, and there will be times when you fail. The true success is in realizing that both are equally important.
“I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” ― Michael Jordan

Failure is a part of the process called life. It is just the first lesson to learn to pick yourself back up and on to your feet again. Even Confucius said that our greatest claim to glory will not be in never falling or ever failing, but in bouncing back, every time you fall. It may be good for grownups to watch little children. Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so ‘safe,’ and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure or fate as they would choose to call it.
And worse still are the excuses we find in times of failure. Rather than accept the fact that you just failed, you tend to find reasons to convince others that your failure was not truly due to you but due to unique reasons, beyond your control. This invented piece of untruth will nevertheless shine through and expose you. If you fail, admit you did and add that you had learnt a lesson from it. That makes you, in every way, respect worthy.
Just remember that when you give yourselves permission to fail, you are, at the same time, giving yourselves permission to excel and win. It’s only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you’re not expressing the utmost of your life experience nor your skills and talents. This means that one who falls and gets up is stronger than the one who never tried. Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.
As JFK rightly put it – “Only those who dare to fail miserably, can achieve greatly.”