Failure, another name of success





Previous post on mistakes, gave me turbulent feedback. I got stuck by a question asked by high school boy that if mistakes are failure to judge (or decide) than what is failure? And why we fail? Again, taken for granted phenomenon was in front of me. Searching for answer of this question gave me bulk of literary material, written by various people across the globe and I really failed to read all of them all ;)  
Interesting thing I noted during search is that these works deals with success or minimizing failures, of course there are some exceptions who tried to analyses failures but these exceptional works are not much liked by people, as no one in modern world loves failures and why we don’t like failures or why we are so obsessed to success?
 
Achievements, is one of the value which modern world strives for and people ‘achieving’ some position or material resources are looked upon as ideal, we are directly or indirectly forced to follow the path which is defined as ‘ideal’. Those who do not follow these path or definitions of these ideals are looked upon as failure.

Failure is merely a divergence from preplanned actions (or expectations). Failure is not always bad, rather it provides alternative dimensions to work and think. It serves as indicator of courage and strengthens our will power. Sometimes (rather many times), failures are translated in form of discoveries and inventions. Here are some thoughts I want to share with people who stigmatize failure as well as people who are afraid to fail.

  • Failure is nothing but undesired success.
  • Failure is adds to experience, as many scientists said (& felt too)
  • Every failure is your own; don’t blame others or situations
  • Don’t be scared by responsibilities; accepting and correcting failures is attribute of strong.
  • Failure gives hardships, it augment talent, use that talent to come up hardships
  • Failure is fun, be innovative to turn failure into success.  
  • Don’t try avoiding failures, by doing so you might close down path of ‘another’ success.
  • Never feel depressed or discouraged after failing; it’s a chance to do something different(ly)
  • Failure makes us stronger, more courageous, wiser and more disciplined.
  • Life is not only about acquisitions and achievements, as many scholars said
  • Failure creates empathy towards others, it gives chance to understand some else’s problem too
  • Leave ‘planning’ for government, military and business, planning everything is risky; we fail because we plan.
  • Celebrate even failures, it’s more important to be happy than to be successful.

Comments

sunny wadhwania said…
The delima betwen success and failures become more important in one's life at certain stage not only certain stage but at every movement of life sometime if a person is failed by some reason then he or she sometime dehumanize the values of life and gets demotivated such writings when they are made to read they can be motivated by such readings so specially your blog canbe helpful in motivating the people.I liked your remark that 'Failure is nothing but undesired success'but sucess consistes of going from failure to failure without lossing enthuism and i think low aim is a crime not a faliure
Pratham Parekh said…
@sunny there is no dilemma between success and failure in real sense because success and failure are same thing. Only difference is success is chosen while failure is not. People are demotivated just because of society,not by themselves

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