As a young man trying to cut my teeth in business, I had
assumed that the road would be rosy all the way. During my university days, my course
mates and I had the premonition that the world outside the university was
filled with diamonds and all we’d had to do was go pick them. We discussed
gloriously about the opportunities we expected to arrive and we were filled
with so much hope. It turned out however that the beats of life doesn’t flow
the way everyone of us assumed it would and we each found our way with our
first major failure, our first major setback, not getting a job after school.
I had suffered from depression having failed to find
something to get busy with immediately after school and I checked out with many
of my colleagues. Some of them were in worst situations than I was and it was
not easy. I began however to find my way around what I could do to help get
past my failure. I observed some of my colleagues too who were getting past
their immediate failures and I decided I wouldn’t be left out from the
immediate success stories. I needed to do something immediately.
My failure to get a job helped me rediscover self. I
discovered I could do lots more than my immediate academic preoccupation so I
set out at developing my talents. I began to write about my experiences and
about life with my writing talent and then I began a school with my teaching talent.
I’ve actually failed since then in almost everything I’ve tried to do but I just
get getting better with each failure
We are often afraid of failure. We have grown with that
mentality that failure is way too bad so we crunch and get depressed when we
fail. We feel that the road to success must be so smooth with all the great
expectations coming through at the end of it. However, success only arrives
after failure. There cannot be a chance of success if there is no chance of
failure.
Failure is a propellant for success. There is chance that if
one persists beyond today’s failure and one allows failure push him, the other
side called success will arrive. Only mediocre persons accept their failures as the
last bus stop of their journey in life. Failure helps us develop important
virtues that success actually requires. Because success is absolutely dependent
on failure, failure helps us build the courage to succeed. The list is endless
of successes that have arrived beyond the barriers of failures. You also have
your personal success stories that are propelled by your past failures if you
look through your story line.
Our world is what it is today is because people failed and
have continued to fail. Failure helps create solutions to problems in life.
Failure of our roads have resulted in the design and creation of better roads,
failure of our education system has resulted in better improved education, failure
of our health institutions and systems have resulted in better healthcare care
delivery. Better only arrives from failures.
The brains behind many of the inventions we enjoy today were
brains that had to fail to rediscover a better way of developing inventions
that solves human problems. Edison’s electric bulb, Karl’s automobile, the
Wright brother’s air plane, Diesels diesel engine and every other human
invention arrived because failure provided a need for a solution and the process
for the provision of solutions required another set of failure for a correct
solution to arrive.
We often find out that when success arrives, it arrives with
a new set of failures. These failures were often unanticipated at the arrival
of the initial success. This is why we get improvements and remodeling of
initial inventions to carter for the arriving failures. The planes the Wright
brothers designed is not the plane we use today. There have being series of
changes and additions to provide for the new failures observed after the
brothers succeed with their flying machines.
Are you failing? Patiently get around your failures. Success
is hanging around the corner waiting and something better will always arrive
after a series of failure. If you are failing, it is no problem. Just fail on,
somewhere along the way, the right failure will arrive for the right solution.
Please don’t fail to fail.
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