“Making a mistake doesn’t make you a failure. It’s simply a reminder that you’re human.”
Failure is the best key to success. If you fail, you would know the value of success. But it's upon you as to how you respond towards the failure. You can’t achieve big if you don’t know the value of that thing. Everyone fails in their life but whoever tries winning after failing, always has the self-esteem of trying again. Losers are those who tried and failed, but at least they gave their 100% over the weak and strong points. Let's just take an example from a short story.
Rahul’s elder brother was the topper of the school in class 10th. His father wanted him to become a civil servant just like him. Now Rahul is in 10th class and just like his brother, they all expect from him that he will or he should score more than 90%. But when the results came, he failed in 2 subjects. He got very disappointed with his results, he didn’t know what to do at this particular time. He doesn’t even know how to face his family after all of this. He didn’t dare to face the consequences afterward. He overthinks about this all of the time and doesn’t want to go home.
He called his friend Pratiksha and started crying a lot and discussed what was going on in his mind and how much the result had impacted him. Pratiksha tells him to calm down and she tells him how much a failure, or for that matter, all the failures are important in life. You have faced happiness and darkness in your life. You can’t get broken off with these little backlogs. Even Sachin Tendulkar in his 10th failed, always taking failure as a challenge to do better than before. We should always respond positively and keep moving forward and letting go of the fear of failure at first.
How We Can Respond Towards Failure at a Personal Level:
1. Be Realistic
Failure does not mean everything is over. You can fail in numerous things but there will always be at least one thing in which no can fail you, try exploring that.
2. Don’t Take Failure Personally
Don’t take failures personally. Try not to hurt your ego with just a mere failure, rather try boosting it up. That gives you positive energy, letting you regain confidence and then to work harder and keep succeeding.
3. Accept Responsibility
Always accept what you achieve and what you failed. Remember your weakness and strength which helps you to be successful and also boost your ego.
4. Be Nice to Yourself
Some of the people hurt themselves after failing. We hear so many incidents these days of the suicide of young students after failing the exams. Just remember a single sheet of paper can’t decide your future, and it never does.
5. Accept And Grow
Always accept your mistakes and try to learn what were the things that went wrong and try not to repeat them next time. Do work on your weakness and don’t take stressful turns in your life.
6. Don’t Quit
Many relatives and close ones believe that if we fail in one thing, it's not our cup of tea anymore but you can prove them wrong at further consecutive successes.
7. Try Again
The most important thing after failure is to have a perception of trying again. We should always try again to do the things in which we failed. ‘Try again’ shows how your learning has sustained over the time being and you are a fighter for your life and not a coward to just sit back and wait for good things to happen.
In the End
After this explanation by Pratiksha, Rahul got a boost. He knew what to do next starting with accepting his mistakes. He then faced his parents and all the relatives and promised his father that this will never be repeated. His family also supported him much to his surprise. Rahul worked harder and in the next year, he cleared his 10th class with a wonderful result of 94%.
Failure is the most important aspect of life because failure teaches you things that success doesn’t. You have to learn from your failures and boost yourself for future endeavors. Your life is important, and so are you for your family and people around. Don’t just bump into the decisions no one ever would be able to justify like depression or becoming suicidal. Your failure isn’t your backlog, it’s the head start.
Written By - Praveen Sharma
Edited By - Khushi Prajapati
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