Essays

There goes an old saying "To be a champion, fight one more round," which is very true. Only tireless pursuit can create winners. Success comes to those who try and never tire. To be a winner, one has to learn to strive with perseverance, courage and determination. Success cannot be achieved in a day. The road to success is not an easy one. It is narrow, rough, patchy, long and full of hurdles and obstacles. One has to learn to overcome the hurdles and obstacles to achieve the desired goal.

A little failure does not matter. In reality, the path to success is strewn with failures, With each failure one gets closer to success and with each fall one rises higher It may seem paradoxical and contradictory to talk of failures and falls alongwith success and rising higher. But it is the very truth. Each failure brings one closer to success because within each failure is hidden a lesson on success. With each fall one learns to walk better.

Look at the first steps of d child. He takes a step forward but then on the second one he falls and stumbles. But that dues nut mean that the child will never learn to walk just because he stumbled at the onset. Rather his stumbling ensures that soon he will learn not only to walk but run around also. Look at a bird in the sky, how it flutters, flutters and fails. How its wings quiver as it makes its first attempts to fly. It tries and fails. But it does not give up. And at last with one more try, it spreads its wings and off its goes into that infinite azure blue sky that seems to be applauding its little yet significant efforts.

The story of the ant trying to climb a wall is often told. It crawls a few inches and falls. But tries again. In fact, the ant goes on trying infinitely - trying to reach to the top of the wall. The onlooker gets bored, tired and loses heart. But the ant does not. It keeps on trying till it reaches the top - till it reaches where it wants to.

History too is sprinkled with such instances where success was granted only after passing through a series of failure. History stands a witness that Mohd. Ghazni had attacked 17 times before he succeeded in conquering India. One has to pick up the life story of any great personality to see that success is never granted on a silver platter. One has to try a number of times before actually tasting success. Even great men and women around the world have had their share of failures before reaching their desired goals-

Life is an interesting game. It does not guarantee that success will be yours at every point in every round. There will be times when failure seems to be haunting more devotedly. There is nothing wrong in losing. But one should never forget the lesson learnt by every failure. One climbs the ladder of success by stepping courageously over each failure, carefully picking up on the lesson taught by each failure and learning from them. More so because it is these failures that form the core of the experiences that a person gains in life. Bitter as these failures may seem to be, yet they hide behind their ugly appearance a useful lesson and a valuable experience which is unravelled only sometime later. It is these failures that strengthen the forthcoming success. Therefore, when failures seem extremely overpowering and life seems bleak, one has to remember that they are in fact even surer signs of success in future.

'The darkest hour is before dawn'. Thus, when nothing seems to work out in the right manner and it seems that all roads are leading to failures i:nd nothingness, one has to just remember the arrival of the dawn, the sun rising dispelling darkness at that very moment when night seems blackest and thickest. Therefore, one should never lose hope but keep on trying till one succeeds. Who knows, this is the last round and you are declared a champion.