At first
glance, failure may seem to be something really frustrating. Failure has caused
a lot of people in this world to stop trying to do what they like to do. Due to
failure, they become desperate. They become frustrated. But don't those
successful people out there experience failure as well? Is failure really that
bad after all?
Well, as
a matter of fact, failure is not a bad thing at all, fortunately. This may
sound ridiculous but that is the fact. That is why people say failure is just a
postponed success instead. In order for people to succeed in life, they will
have to go through failure. With failure, they learn what mistakes they should
not do anymore later in their life. It is only with failure that success will
come to people's way.
One good
example is Thomas Alva Edison. Today, everybody in this world knows who he was.
In fact, the lighting's that people are able to enjoy in today's modern world
are the result of his invention a long time ago. But, behind his success, even
such a person as Thomas Alva Edison also experienced failure for a lot of times
during his attempts of inventing lights.
At
school, his teacher mentioned that he was too stupid to learn even a thing. At
his first two jobs, Thomas Alva Edison was fired 2 times. The reason his
employers gave him was that he was non productive. And before he eventually
succeeded in inventing lights, failure came to him as many as a thousand times.
But when people asked him how he felt to fail that many times, he said that those
failures he had were not failures at all. Instead, he mentioned that in order
to invent a light bulb, it took a thousand steps.
Another
good example is Winston Churchill. This man failed at the sixth grade at his
school. Also, every single time he took part in public office election, it was
a sure thing that he would be defeated. This happened to him all the time until
he reached the age of 62 when he finally made it to become a Prime Minister.
The good thing was that he did not give up. If only he had given up that time,
he would not have become a Prime Minister at all.
Bill
Gates may also be one pretty interesting example. He happens to be one of the
richest men in this world. But behind his success, there were also failures.
Bill Gates got dropped out of the university he attended which was the Harvard
University. Who would have guessed that a young man dropped out of a university
will become someone whose product is used all over the world? Today, we can see
Microsoft Windows operating system almost everywhere as long as there is a
computer.
With
that being said, it is highly recommended that people do not give up in life
just because they have not achieved the success they expect to achieve yet.
Just like children who try to stand up and walk again after they fall, when
people fall 7 times they should step up 8 times.
