SUCCESS AND FAILURE - வெற்றியும், தோல்வியும் - सफलता और असफलता

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SUCCESS AND FAILURE

 

வெற்றியும், தோல்வியும்

 

सफलता और असफलता

 

 

Failure and success are not just oft-repeated terms but the stark realities of life. Even though they are like two sides of the same life coin, they are poles apart in character i.e. one becomes sad while encountering a failure and turns euphoric at a success. If one claims that he/she has not failed, perhaps that person has not tried anything at all. Life is inevitably a mix or combination of both success and failure. When failure or success happens, it affects human emotions and psyche.

 

A failure should not be treated as ‘bad’ or ‘curse’. It should be taken as a positive life lesson or experience, a step forward towards success.

 

Failure is an inevitable part of even a well-designed system. Mind not. But, how soon you recover and bounce back to success is the crux of the matter.

 

People don’t plan to fail, they only fail to plan successfully. In other words, there is no intention to fail, but there is no proper planning with an ardent desire to sweat it out and succeed.

 

You must learn from your past failures and mistakes; maybe, nothing is there to learn from past successes. As Winston Churchill said, “To be willing even to fail is the first step to success.” The saying is not to encourage slipshod and/or lackluster work necessarily inviting failure, but to make you not lose heart at a failure but to persevere harder toward success. Can we then say, “Failure is inevitable sometimes? Failing to learn from the experience is optional."

Success is a wonderful thing for all the winners to relish and enjoy, but one must not underestimate the value of failure. For failure teaches men many more things than even success ever can.

Every day is a new day. Don’t let yesterday’s failures ruin today’s beauty because each day has its own promises of joy and success.

 

Don’t get disheartened at a failure. If your present plans have failed, ask yourself if there is a better plan waiting to be discovered. Mahatma Gandhi  said, "I take success as a fillip to scale still further heights while I take my failures as steps to move forward towards my progress ."

To quote Thomas Edison, “Learn the art of converting failure into success and challenge into opportunity; there is no failure for such a person.” Such a person will have an undaunted mindset.

The winners in life’s game are not those who have never tasted failure but rather are those who have failed again and again, but who never gave up. Winners benefit from each failure and see it as a step to victory. 

There is a Tamil proverb, “நுட்ப புத்திமான் திட்ப சித்திவான்” which translates to  “The shrewed are successful.”

A funny Tamil proverb goes thus:

“வைத்தியம் வாயாடிக்குப் பலிக்கும.” It means that a loquacious doctor is successful.

 

அடி மேல் அடி வைத்தால் அம்மியும் நகரும் - Beat after beat will make even a stone move - Try and try again, you will succeed at last.

 

Remember, success is only a journey and not the destination. So, one should aspire for more and more success milestones in the path and journey of his/herlife.

 

तुम्हारे इरादों की आग हो वो चिंगारी है, जो सफलता की मशाल जलाएगी। - If there is fire in your intentions, it is a spark that will burn the torch of success.

असफलता रास्ता नही बंद करती, ये बस 

बताती है  कि चाल में थोड़ी  तेज़ी की ज़रूरत

है ।

(Failure does not close the path, but just tells you that there is a need to add speed to your move and/or trick to achieve success)

 

सपनों के बादलों में उड़ान भरनी हो तो हौसले के

आसमान से मज़बूत रिश्ता बनाना ज़रूरी है ।

(If you want to launch the flight of your dreams on the clouds, you need to weave a strong relationship [of courage and robust and enduring morale] with the sky).

 

With all said and done, nothing succeeds like success. Isn’t it? However, don’t confuse fame with success. Okay!

 

 

 

R.SAMPATH

17/3/2025