Success can mean different things to different people. For some, it could be becoming the wealthiest person among the people around, while for some it can simply mean being happy.

However, success is actually more than health and accomplishment. Success, in a true sense, is achieving what matters most to you—authentically. We always want to succeed, in everything we do, every time we try. Nobody wants to fail, nobody wants to lose. We have become so focused on the success that we ignore the perspectives of failure. But failure, sometimes, can be the biggest lesson to remember in our lives.

Though it hurts, it can teach us the hard-hitting, facts that will make our  lives eventually better. 

Yes, success is necessary but failure is also a part of our life. It shapes us into who we are. If you try to go through life without failing at anything, then my friend, you are not living a life at all. Almost all successful people, be it Stephen King, Steve Jobs, J.K. Rowling, Oprah Winfrey, or Bill Gates, have struggled at some point  in life. But they learned from their mistakes and implemented that learning to convert it into success. When a baby first learns to walk, she falls down many times, which, in fact, is a failure but despite falling down, again and again, she doesn’t stop trying to walk and finally one day she walks without any support.  In the same way, if we keep trying ignoring the failures, we will definitely succeed.  

The problem is, our society celebrates only success and completely ignores the setbacks. Nobody admits that they have failed.  

If you fail at something, the first thing you will gain is the experience. It helps us to develop a deeper understanding of life. Failure encourages you to adapt to other solutions. It gives you irreplaceable knowledge, the knowledge that can be harnessed to overcome problems next time. 

Life is designed for us to grow and improve and when we fail, we grow and mature as human beings.   Value is yet another thing that failure teaches us. It teaches us that to make anything successful we need to work hard.  Failure also uncovers one’s fear and weaknesses. 

As Robert F. Kennedy has said, “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” So, rather than taking failure as an obstacle in your way, take it positively, learn from it and implement it next time. Accept failure and obstacles with open arm and say, “If I fail, I’ll still wake up tomorrow exactly who I am, and will have learned something critical.”  

 
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