#3. “So sad that you failed,” they say

“What’s your grade?” They will ask, even though they know that you failed. You, your parents, are ashamed to talk about your education with anyone anymore. You had bunked classes, didn’t think of studying at any point of time, and enjoyed every bit of your life with friends. You very well knew that you will fail. Still, the failure hurts you.  

That’s the sad reality. No one likes to fail. No one likes failures. So, what should you do?

    (a)     Hide yourself from the society.

    (b)    Run away from your home

    (c)     Appear broken.

Answer is “None of the above”

Failure is not a full stop in life. It can never be, if you don’t allow it to be. It was just an “unexpectedly expected” turn. A change in flow. The above-mentioned options will change it into a full stop. 

You are adding more power to failure, when you decide to break yourself. Failure starts believing that “I am not a mere word, I can destroy lives. How powerful I am.” 

That’s when you, actually, start failing in life. That’s when you stop living. That’s when you lose yourself.

Your failure in a subject or subjects doesn’t prove that you are incapable of doing anything. But the simple, amply evident, fact is that you are not interested in those subjects. Your disinterest in some subjects should not be converted into disinterest towards whole life. 

You can make your life interesting, without any external support. The key for your happiness is within you, your heart. 

Only that, you need to have a helicopter-view of the things. Nothing much would be visible ahead if you keep yourself at the same position. Since the cloud of failure would obstruct your view ahead.

Another beautiful twist may be awaiting you at the next turn. And you are going to miss that golden opportunity if you stop walking. 

Failure is not failure, unless you make it so. It’s just a change in flow. A change, that’s it. 

Then, who doesn’t want a change.