Failure

Shubham Pathak
2 min readMay 14, 2021

Failure is one of those things that happens to everyone no matter who you are, a student, teacher, billionaire etc. Being a failure is seen as something that creates shackles around you to demotivate you to do nothing and the more you fail the worse it gets.

It has affected multiple people, from teenagers to adults as we face failure in every stage of our lives: a test at school, a driving lesson or at a game final. It can affect a person's mental health so much that at a point they do not even feel like trying anymore for something because they have failed so much that fear has begun in their mind that what happens next.

This thought runs through a lot of minds that what will happen after but they forget about what is happening now. Being called a failure by others hurts a person’s mentality to a point where they block them all out, but when it is someone close to you then it affects your heart and you begin to block out yourself from being free because to you they are the ones that you need to please and be accepted by.

You are not the only one, An athlete could worry about his next game if they will play well or not. A student will worry if they will get good marks or not. What happens next can affect your life and of others around you as well. Everyone is affected by the failure, we are all trapped in our own little mind cells restricting ourselves from doing what we love and overcoming that phrase of being a failure.

If the greats were told they were not that good enough or they are shit and they got depressed would they stop or would they continue doing what they love and improving their skills to a point that even they themselves become surprised at what they have achieved?

If Messi was called short and he didn't get the motivation to prove them all wrong about being a failure then he wouldn't be one of the greatest footballers to ever touch a football. If Steve Jobs did not fail at making a phone that would revolutionise the mobile industry then we would have no Apple, the leading brand in technological advancements.

Failure may seem like the hardest thing at this time but if you do not get up now then you will lose this moment forever, each second will never come back again, each thought should be at what you are going to do next to come back and be better then you ever were. If you can do one thing then be so great at that one thing that no one can do it better than you.

If you are not great at one thing it does not mean the end of the world but the beginning to a new world where there are more possibilities and failure is just another word for success as without failing you wouldn't get the motivation to do more and be more then you are now.

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