Okay, I failed!! ... Again!
People run after success therefore people are running . I prefer intelligence therefore I watch 3 idiots (the Amir Khan flick.)
Jokes apart, how ignorant the world has become ? Teacher emphasise upon numbers, parents emphasise upon numbers, society emphasises upon numbers! As if numbers were invented to educationally differentiate people just like numbers distinguish Benetton from Khaadi.
“Ask her to wear make- up she’s good in that only. Arey! He will not do anything he doesn’t have that spark in him” or the best among the rest “marry her off bhai!”. Which holy book says nerds can wear thick glasses but no dark lipstick? What do we have in our veins blood or kerosene? a little flame and the entire body will burn to ash and for the water of youth’s sake marriage is not the last resort of every problem after puberty. You slog day and night to stand on your own feet and not just walk on those very own feet to collect your child’s birth certificate from the concerned municipality (I agree we do much more for instance parents buy a sticker that say baby inside drive carefully blah! Blah! To be glued behind the car carrying the child. As if the roads comply with the affectionate feeling of the new parents)
Do we ever understand the turmoil of the one who has been tagged “failed” ever? The easiest thing available absolutely free of cost is advice or I should call it sick advice. There is a long list of what to do and what not to do. You have to work harder, try doing something else, you are not studying properly. I wish studies were like calories that could be counted every fort-night. Unfortunately there is no escape from these expert panels of a kind and more painful is staring at the unmoving floor below when you can easily stare at the revolving fan above. After all Swami Vivekananda said AIM HIGH!
Successful people deserve all our appreciation for the hard work they put in to reach a level that remains a dream for others, but it is our responsibility as wise people to slip into the shoe of those who failed this time to motivate them to do better. Failure is not just about numbers, earning well and spending it on alcohol, drugs, and picking up cigarette butts or pulling a more capable person down through treachery is failure of morals. Using, misusing and then reusing some body’s feelings for personal gain is failure of ethics and lying to your parents concealing facts from your loved ones is failure of upbringing.There is political failure, and also economic failure however every failure is indirectly a failure of society and therefore before we point fingers at others we must ensure our hands are clean (Bob Marley).
Hence I say, failure is not a disqualification, it is a belief we authorize to dominate our state of mind.Failure is a lesson that life teaches us the more we learn from it the better we become. What we know about us is truth and success is a mere reflection of this truth. The realm of dust will dwindle one day and the mirror will shine again! Some day.
Signing off
Srishti
