Failure is Motivation

What is the relation between fear and failure? Well, the go hand in hand. if u fear something, most likely u are bound to fail at it. And if u fear failure itself you are bound to improve yourself. Its as mysterious as it is interesting. Fear and failure can both produce the best and the worst inside a person, depending on the choices he makes. I very firmly believe that one cannot achieve true and complete success and joy without being dejected and having failed somewhere in his life.

What is success without failure? Its bland, it has no taste. not unless you have failed that you understand that there is a need for improvement and rethink your course of action. If you succeed without having failed, it is your talent. But if you succeed after having failed at the same thing before, that my friends is your strength. and the success you achieve after having failed is very sweet. Failure motivates you. Failure makes you better. Failure make you do things that you have never ever tried before. So nobody should be scared of failing. Because unless you have failed you wouldn't realise whats good for you? What is better for? How you need to improve yourself?

A small incidence from my own life. i was in class 11th, didn't want to take up science as my subjects, but still had to (i don't regret it). i was very bad at my subjects. i was an mediocre student always, never topping never in the bad grades. well specially chemistry. i failed throughout the year, never passed once in 4 exams. My teacher screamed at me all throughout the year. i felt bad, but i didn't do anything to improve on that, i didn't realise what was going to happen. i didn't like the subject at all, to the point i hated it. i was never able to understand anything, anything at all. no reaction would make sense, no periodic table progressions made sense to me. maybe all this happened because i was lost in completely different world that had opened up in front of me. the wider prospect that now existed that i lost my total and complete focus about my academics, new people in school, the need to be popular, the need to impress girls. and all this was very fascinating. but all this happened at the cost of my studies suffering majorly. once a pretty decent student was now failing almost most of the subjects and worst part was i didn't care.

eventually, the year came to an end and i wasn't promoted like all my friends. i had failed in chemistry. the only good part being i was given a chance to redeem myself with a retest that would allow me to pass. this all felt so bad within me that i hated myself. this incident drove me to the point of being afraid. the fear filled my mind that if i don't pass thing thing, i would lose all my dearest friends. imagine, all this is happening and still I'm thinking about me being with my friends. well it did the trick you know. it made me so scared that i stopped everything all around me and sat down and study my ass off all throughout the week. just so that i would lose my friends. i studied and studied. and still full with fear each and everyday. i saw everyone join the next class and the only one not there was me, all alone. and i cant say they missed me, maybe because they didn't, maybe because they all passed. but i didn't want to think that. i continued and gave my exam.

i passed. i passed with 59/70. and the paper was not one bit easier. and i came back to where i belonged.

so it was failure which motivated me. the fear that motivated me. and i made it through.

it is so hard for people to look beyond the failure and achieve what one really wants. the only thing is you need to keep doing it, over and over and over and over again!! till you succeed!!