Experiencing Failure
It is said there are no failures- just experiences and our reactions to them. What is the experience that Failures leave us with? Very often it leaves us heart broken, dejected, low self esteem, low self confidence and a host of other negative thoughts & negativity. Even with all these not so good feelings that a failure leaves us with, we humans are a gifted lot who have this innate ability to bounce back after every fall, to rise & shine brighter and this happens if and only if one wishes to do that.
I have been trying to delve into my setbacks to garner the various experiences. Apart from all the negatives there is also something very strange that I felt to have experienced, I realised that all the setbacks have left me feeling very humble. Humbling??? how could that be possible was the question that kept creeping in, of all the things Humble.
One gets flying really high in the quest to achieve our goals and dreams. We do achieve the set targets, and celebrate the success for all the efforts gone behind the same, the spurt continues and we are on the pedestal. Sometimes in the midst of all the highs, factors like arrogance, high headedness, overconfidence and the likes creep in, we do not realise the same and continue touching the heights which only get higher with each success. Then comes the “Fall” which is not all that a great experience for anyone, leaving us all bruised, battered and the likes of such feelings. But I guess the Fall is very necessary to bring each of us back to the ground to the place from where we started and keep reminding us that it is necessary to conquer great heights but not at the cost of ones humbleness.
Would like to quote a thought that I had chanced upon which says ‘To be truly Great one has to stand with people, not above them. So can say that the true success of an individual comes with the humility & humbleness reflected by them, which I have learnt only after the “Great Fall”.
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In response to your post I think of the Thomas Edison philosophy, that the thousand attempts at creating the light bulb that failed made the endeavor merely a thousand step process. There is a line in Paulo Coelho’s “Warrior of the Light” that suggests we don’t give undue consideration to our failures, but I think for some reason most of us do.
Incredible post, you really do have an amazing talent for writing – seriously! Tis why I beg you to write more and more … *smiles big*
hey thanks….i surely will try to be more often in tis space….