If you think this is the way to escape failure, then you are wrong. We have made failure a taboo, and it should not be so....
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Failure is lack of success or an inability to meet an expectation. In every society and culture of the world, failure is considered negatively, which makes us all suffer from fear and fright syndrome. Even talking about failure gives us the heebie-jeebies, so we have all found a solution and that is to remain tight-lipped about this matter. A wise decision, right? No, absolutely not! If you think this is the way to escape failure, then you are wrong. We have made failure a taboo, and it should not be so.
From our homes to offices, everyone is confabulating about their achievements as if they have never failed. We all know that failure is normal, yet it spreads trepidation among us because we fear how it will define us. We fear how we will shake it off, whether we will ever get successful or not, and most importantly, one failure fears what other failures are going to say about him because, in the end, we all fail at something.
Parents don't want to see their children fail as they failed once. Our minds are designed in such a way that children in schools are using the word “failure” as an expletive to hurt those having low scholastic records. We all, whether young or grown-up, admire successful people around us but what we forget is that they also failed once; the only thing which made them triumphant was when they got knocked down, they dusted themselves off and stood up again.
Albert Einstein, the “person of the century”, was not “Einstein” at school. He even failed the entrance exam for the prestigious Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, but did he quit? Obviously not. He returned to high school, got his diploma and passed the university’s entrance exam on his second attempt, and then won the Nobel Prize. You have probably read Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol; let me tell you that their author, Charles Dickens, was a school dropout. Learning from failures can lead us to a better and brighter future. If you have ever come across the phrase “survival of the fittest”, then you must know Charles Darwin, a famous naturalist, geologist and biologist. All his work was possible because so many others before him failed and made mistakes and he observed those mistakes and corrected them.
Let me confess that I have failed in my life, not once, not twice, but a lot of times. As a student, I lost many competitions and even failed to get good marks to achieve my lifelong dream of being a doctor, and in that despair, I also gave up, but then with the help of Allah Almighty, I came to know that setbacks are inevitable. I learned that failure is a crucial step on the path of learning. I learned that losing a competition or not getting good marks or any other failure doesn't define me. I learned that these failures were making me confident and building strength in me. Things, for me, got transformed when I strived hard. I got success, I was in the limelight, I was winning competitions, and I was scoring higher and higher. The dust of my failure settled and I stood victorious.
A recent study shows that using failure as an expected component of a company can increase company profit, increase creativity, and even build trust in employees.
Dear readers, it’s time to celebrate the F world! Because we know that we must fail to achieve something tremendous. We must talk about failure to learn from it because it's not taboo. I would sum up the article in the words of Charles Kettering: “It’s not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world”.