Thursday, June 3, 2010

Cope with competition and failure.

As i walk along the long unending corridors i look up to the ceiling and i notice a stout little bulb sandwiched between two long masculine tube lights, only shedding light enough to illuminate the three steps on either side but still holding on to dear life not to let those dominating tube lights steal the show by casting a spotlight with a far higher wavelength and with much accurate aim. My mind then begins to wonder about the ever so close competition that lurks behind all our closets of incredulous work loads only to show itself when we,as only human make a mistake then squeezes all but the failure out of us. The sub-consious mind then whirls into hyper drive to begin processing those not so benign memories of hardship we faced and then picks one such memory only to make us realize that,even though that failure occurred we managed to somehow shed a small amount of light on ourselves if not others just like that poor stout little bulb sandwiched between two gigantic opponents did.
Life offers so much to people,they actually start failing to notice those very prominent signs of change. At every step of life we will encounter change and we are all that capable to realize that no matter how grown we may be the first step should always be the most cautious step for one never knowns when we may break into a run instead of a walk because whatever be the phase of life we must learn to walk before we run. So it's all up to an individual to decide what the first step should be like. Be it an exam in school or college or much lager magnitudes of tests it's all in the individuals hands on how to move the leg to embark on that journey. Failure at any point of life is eminent be it small or of catastrophic magnitudes there is no other justification for 'failure'. A small trip is a failure, a drop of the pen is a failure so much so even beginners luck is a 'failure'. It's only represented as a more happy word as 'success'. These two words aren't very different, failure actually means to not achieve some goal after aiming for it, what if a person wins a lottery!? He's just let it be in the hands of luck! That's no success. What about a rookie poker player? If he wins by some chance after playing against the best of the best and only a few lucky calls he's won the game but that's a 'failure' because he never would have aimed to win and even if he aimed to win he never would have expected to win, that's not achieving his goal at all. There are things we live around that have two very similar meanings but have the exact opposite effect on our souls.
Competition and failure go hand in hand. like the fire triangle needs fuel,air and heat, the human psychological break-down triangle needs competition,failure and discouragement. If any of the three are missing a person doesn't go through a severe phase of depression.
I may seem to be a very sad person trying to suck of joy out of every joyful thing but if you can manage to look at it the way i have then it really isn't that depressing, it's just joyous to know that we can actually take one bad experience and turn it around into one great learning happy result. I don't pledge that i live exactly like i have written but i do assure you that it would be great if we all really tried. There would be no need and sense to fight if disputes over success are fought with words of understanding. We are all capable of moulding ourselves to others whims and are even capable of moulding others into their own selves including ourselves.
The sway from an individual experience of competition to a more generalized way of failure is only trying to get 100% attention on the topic. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT.! Though it may sound confusing it isn't. TRUST ME!

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