Failures are the Pillars of Success

 Failures are the Pillars of  success

There goes an old saying " To be a champion, fight one more round, " which is very true. Only tireless pursuit can create winners. Success comes to those who try and never tire. To be a winner, one has to learn to strive with perseverance, courage, and determination. Success cannot be achieved in a day.

The road to success is not an easy one. It is narrow, rough, patchy, long, and full of hurdles and obstacles. One has to learn to overcome the hurdles and obstacles to achieve the desired goal. A little failure does not matter. In reality, the path to success is strewn with failures. 

With each failure, one gets closer to success, and with each fall one rises higher. It may seem paradoxical and contradictory to talk of failures and falls along with success and rising higher. But it is the very truth.

Each failure brings one closer to success because within each failure is hidden a lesson about success. With each fall one learns to walk better. Look at the first steps of a child. He takes a step forward but then on the second one he falls and stumbles.

But that does not mean that the child will never learn to walk just because he stumbled at the onset. Rather, his stumbling ensures that soon he will learn not only to walk but run around also . Look at a bird in the sky, and how it flutters, flutters, and fails. How its wings quiver as it makes its first attempts to fly.

It tries and fails. But it does not give up. And at last with one more try, it spreads its wings, and off it goes into that infinite azure blue sky that seems to be applauding its little yet significant efforts. The story of the ant trying to climb a wall is often told. It crawls a few inches and falls. But try again. The ant goes on trying infinitely - trying to reach to the top of the wall. The onlooker gets bored, tired, and loses heart. But the ant does not. It keeps on trying till it reaches the top till it reaches where it wants to.

History too is sprinkled with such instances where success was granted only after passing through a series of failures. History stands a witness that Mohd. Ghazni had attacked 17 times before he succeeded in conquering India. One has to pick up the life story of any great personality to see that success is never granted on a silver platter.

One has to try several times before actually tasting success. Even great men and women around the world have had their share of failures before reaching their desired goals.