Is Failure Really Failure?

Many of us have heard sayings such as, “never give up”, “learn from your mistakes” and many more. Yes, these are the words that you hear when you could not get that promotion, or could not make it up to the basketball team or whenever you wanted to reach a level and failed at reaching it.

These words are true, look at all those famous people. They failed initially. Learned from their mistakes, refused to give up and ultimately achieved success. What everybody misses out here is the force that kept them going. Even when they were going through the darkest tunnels, they had this light, a hope that this will end soon and they are going to get out of it. They are going to achieve their dreams.

But when I think closely (you may not like it), I realize that world only knows one side of the story. We only know the journey of a successful person. What about a hard-working person, who works hard, never give up, no matter how hard the circumstances are, but barely makes the living. Let’s assume that this person is dumb and therefore is not able to grow. But again, I personally know people who are wise, knowledgeable, smart and yet so called “unsuccessful.”

Somewhere along the line, we must acknowledge the fact that the society and the system that we live in is not perfect. There are flaws. Sometimes we get things we do not deserve, good or bad. As humans, we can only try to give our best, but there are things that are out of our control. You can call it ‘luck’ or ‘karma’ but this unknown factor can sometimes highly influence lives.

PS:- Don’t want to upset anybody, just want a healthy discussion about the topic.