Failure: A blessing in disguise

Hi, I hope you are doing well. It’s been a long since I last posted. But okay, I am back again with a topic to rant about.

The other day, as I was going through my 2021 journal, I stumbled upon a page about my second-semester viva. It was the day I wept and almost considered giving up on college because I performed terribly. I vividly remember not being able to answer questions during that viva, and it made me see myself as a significant failure. I thought I had prepared enough to ace it, but evidently, I was far from reality.

Failures and disappointments can be daunting experiences. We all make mistakes and go through tough times. The main reason we feel disappointed over a failure is that we have expectations — expectations to come out with flying colors. But when those expectations aren’t met, we consider ourselves failures, and that feeling hits hard.

We are never taught in school how to deal with failure. Failure is always considered imperfect and flawed, when, in reality, it is a blessing in disguise. It comes to all of us; what’s important is what we learn from it.

When we continuously succeed, we tend to get complacent, and our growth might stagnate. But when we fail, the fire in our soul remains ignited, and we fight twice as hard to achieve our goals.

All the rejections you face are part of your path to success.

Consider it this way: Suppose you are on a bus ride. You pass by roads with beautiful scenes and then come across roads with bumpy potholes, some half-pitched, some wholly deserted, and the list goes on and on. If you end up on a deserted road, do you stop there and start cursing yourself for being there? No, right?

This is exactly like life. We experience success sometimes, and sometimes it’s a continuous series of failures. What matters is to keep moving and consider every failure as an opportunity to introspect on where we could have improved instead of bogging ourselves down.

It doesn’t matter what you start and how many times you fail; what does matter is how you choose to finish it.

Failure is a part of success, not the opposite of it. All of us are fighting our own battles with ourselves. Sometimes we might win, and sometimes we lose. Every time you find yourself in a dark phase, remember that something magnificent is waiting for you. You might fall at times but will never fail until you give up. Focus on the process, not the end product. The process might bring you failures, but it will teach you more than any success ever can!