Taste of Failure

The breeze blew her hair in the direction where the wind was blowing. The cold atmosphere made a shiver run down her spine. The sudden change in weather demanded that she alter her study place.

Apparently, it felt that a blow of wind would wash her tears away but it did nothing to her internal soul crying. Crying for what you may wonder!

A piece of Challenge it was, disturbing her. It was more like coping with the stress, then and now, getting heavily affected by panic attacks. More challenging than digesting the whole subject in a go. An entire month was more than enough to complete the whole course yet overcoming the anxiety was a major hurdle she had to cross.

Noor had never experienced such a big failure in her entire life. She had so far only heard how stress felt like, from her family and fellows but experiencing it herself for the first time in her life, told her how devastating it could be, if not handled properly.

She was not alone in this, people were there to support her. Her teachers, friends, fellow seniors and parents had a firm belief in her, yet how come she doubted it.

She was a brilliant student acing all her exams in one go without taking pressure. Yet this time, Medical School had taught her that it demanded attention from its pupils. She never imagined she'd fail one of the subjects at Medical school and here she was preparing for her second attempt.

Ever felt doomed in life? Like the world upon which you relied, collapsed you underneath itself. Challenges popping up in life are so sudden that you don't have time to realize what just happened. And we're never prepared for such challenges. Or are we?

In this era, are we taught how to cope with failure? We are not even told the strategies to win. We have to find them out ourselves. We are told to work hard day and night. Why not teach the new generation how to maintain that balance in life.

The word Failure is thought of as negative. Although a person who fails and learns by his mistake is an achiever. Because real success is only felt when you have lost something and strive to gain it back by fair means.

People usually boast about their success. Just talking about their accomplishments in general. It's human nature I suppose.

But how many of us boast about our failure. Do we even let it get exposed? We hide our failures for the sake of embarrassment. For the fear of losing our place in society.

But have we ever thought about what failure feels like? What a failing person is going through? I don't think we consider that aspect of life. A reality far from being acceptable.

When we win, we celebrate. When we fail, we sorrow over it. We feel like it's the end of the world. We go into depression, we stress over our failure, and we feel disastrous like it's the end of the world. Do all of us reflect on the mistakes that led us to our failure? We only rant about our failure. We cry, wail and shed tears in front of our family and friends.

Some are even cursed when they fail by their family mostly. Perhaps it's because they have high expectations from you and you don't fulfil them. They have paid the expenses and you kind of ruin their money maybe. Some people are avoided by their mates when they fail.

The whole world seems to distance itself from the people who failed. People change their attitudes towards the failing person. During the failing phase, the person needs the support of his family, friends and mentors. So he won't be left alone to face it.

If any of you has ever failed in life in any task or an exam, you guys would know how it feels like to fail. If this person doesn't have someone's back for support, he'll go into depression and start crumbling apart.

He needs that motivation to keep going through this challenging phase of his life from time to time. The only difficult phase one has to go through after failure is that particular, temporary phase of struggle.

Nature is always throwing hurdles in our way. Sometimes we are capable of embracing those challenges, sometimes we are not. We always get another chance after failing once, sometimes we even get them twice. We need to avail these chances and become better versions of ourselves.

Failure leads to the ultimate taste of success. Failure makes you a better person, a better achiever and it shows the real meaning of hard work to you. Failure shows who loves you, who holds grudges against you, and who wants to see you succeed.

The real feeling of success is only felt once you jump back, from that failing phase to the finishing line, you couldn't cross last time, even stronger. The only failing person who succeeds afterwards is the one who does not give up. The only success formula is to stay motivated and never stop striving.

So, if you ever have to go through this experience, don't think you're alone. Go seek out help from your seniors who have been through that particular exam or task. Seek help from those who succeeded in the exam. Don't hesitate to ask for help because it's highly gonna benefit you in the longer run.

Stay Motivated and don't ever forget to strive harder and harder in every phase of your life.