That's the Thing About Failure

Have you ever met a failure in your life? When everything didn't work as you planned and you felt that your efforts were in vain? Well.. I have... And in my opinion, everyone has.

Life is not a wish granting factory, you couldn't just get everything you want. As I recall, there's no successful person who hasn't met any failure within his/her journey, isn't it? What I mean by successful is the best one, kind of person who was not only success in their career, but also change the world! People nowadays usually are being so liberal with "successful" term, they often reduce the level of "successful" in order to make themselves get into that criteria. We could learn from that successful person such as Steve Jobs and Bill Gates who got dropped out from their university before successfully built their own company whose innovations always be a major breakthrough in techno world, or maybe Soichiro Honda who was rejected by Toyota when he applied for engineer position there before eventually made his own factory which is being the arch rival of Toyota up until now. There are still so many persons that I couldn't write it down here.

The point is... Failure could feel devastating, but you shouldn't let it crush you. In some cases, failure leads to some people's suicide. In my opinion, it was wrong in any level! You couldn't treat every situation as a life-death matter, because you'll die a lot of times! We have to learn from that successful people, their motivation, their strength, etc. Especially for the strength, because the real strength didn't come form lifting weights, but rather from lifting yourself up everytime you got knocked down. Failure is important to remind us that we were not good enough, thus we have to work really hard in order to get what we want and to avoid the failures in the future. There are a lot of little reasons why the big things in our lives happen, failures were only one of that little reasons. Sometimes you have to go through the mud in order to find a precious jewel.

That's the thing about failure, it demands to be felt.