Why Think of Failure When You Can Decide Well Like a Prime Minister?

This is a straight question that I shoot often to those who approach me with their fabricated woes. And I say, “Yes, you have failed.” The result is horrible, but I remain unmoved. A few weak minds deteriorate in progression, which is obvious. However, I am revealing a secret. If a sorrow is made to burst into tears, the heart eases, and again the left hemisphere of the brain is ready to accept fresh commands.

Happiness and sorrows are gifted emotions from the almighty, and these are two sides of a coin. A person can’t experience happiness forever. If this happens, it is an illusion, a feeling which isn’t the reality. If an unjustified emotion rules longer, then ignorance, a hidden enemy sweeps away peace forever. Oh! I pray no one should give up his life out of despair; else the mankind would cease to exist.

See, there is a little confusion between cheerfulness and prosperity -- the later is just an outcome. People often treat contentment as prosperity. Hey! Are your ears open? The first golden rule is putting the habit of feeling happy every time. Don’t worry of prosperity. Cheerfulness is the leader, and prosperity is the follower. Understood cheerleaders? You should... by this time. No???  

Let me dig a bit. Since I graduated from my college some fifteen years back, I had a dream, a silly hope of becoming famous like the late pop star Michael Jackson, and the corporate honcho Azim Premji – when I used to visit the library just for collecting books. I only thought of growing rich. What richness meant to me that time? First, I would ask you to laugh at me. Not yet over?  Here is my foolish answer, “I should have $10000000 in my bank account, a classy Benz that would be driven by a well shaved chauffeur. Again at 5 pm, I would take daybreak, go the club, lit a cigar, and play snooker”. How wretched my thoughts were, I feel ashamed now. Believe me; I suffered for around 15 years, as illusion dominated me. I was in desperation to end that gloomy game.

I realized lately that thinking big is a part of success, but what about the rest, the action? What I did was going back to my schooldays, and asked myself, “Why my parents sent me to school? Who were benefited? Yes, I am one of them. If I couldn’t have passed the 12th standard exams, I wouldn’t have made my way to the engineering course followed by post diploma degree in management”. Hence, every progression is backed by logic, and that is the rule of attaining a goal.

Listen to your heart first, because heart never lies. Choose a goal, means stand by a cause, and that should be genuine.

(Coffee ...... !!! – It was a virtual break)

Welcome back. Your aim should be genuine. Once you have decided what to do, check whether you possess the required skill set to justify your goal. Oh! I don’t know this, that, blah blah ...... Fine enough. Have you failed? If you stop there, okay then, it is your choice. Feel depressed, enjoy foolish dreams, and experience nightmares.

The moment you find gaps in your action plan, you will mindfully look for acquiring skills through Google, practice hard, and put them in use for better good.

Look at me. I am not a full-time writer, but somewhere I felt of connecting with people, address their difficulties, and make their lives happier through my write-ups. That’s why I write, write, and write during my leisure time. I faced rejections, but those were uncountable. I won’t say I failed. Those were the shortcomings as per self introspection. I listened harder, smarter, shot up electric bills, made keyboard defunct, but hadn’t given up writing. I write to make things right. If everything is right, why to worry about prosperity.

Did I fail? If I can overcome failure with sensible actions, you are no different than me. It’s your life, your decisions. Simply rock on.