Definition Of Failure Essay

If you look at the definition of failure in English dictionary, it is defined by 3 simple words “Lack of Success.” So what does it mean? For me it means being unsuccessful at something that I was doing or trying to do. The word failure is very powerful even though it seem like a small word. The general concept that people have about failure is quite negative. As soon as we hear the word failure, the first things that come in mind are negative thoughts like defeat, sad, foundering. For most of us we try to ignore this word. People have misconception about failure. They think that if we fail then that’s it. They get nothing out of it i.e waste of time.They don’t value the things they learn from it. All the experience they gained and all the work

White, A. Lincoln: A Biography, January 13, 2009) This is a perfect example for failure. Despite failing multiple times in every aspect of life he kept on going. He never gave up. His strong perseverance got him what he wanted. He did not take failure as a setback rather a learning curve and continued adding knowledge to his book. Learning from his failure, gaining experience and knowledge he achieved success. What people should get from this is that our efforts are never a waste. Our every effort counts and act as a stepping stone to our success. There is a quote from Theodore Roosevelt “ Nothing in this world that’s worth having comes easy.” which is absolutely true. If you want to succeed you will have to give everything you got to achieve

My results were nothing that I expected. That was the first time in my life, I got taste of failure. After seeing my result, I was devastated. I was disgruntled and despondent at first. I was convinced that I did everything from my end. I thought the exam checker had done some mistake in my grading. I did not want to accept my score. Then I started blaming my health, for not being 100% in exam day. I kept denying that it was my fault. So as time passed and I was waiting for my grade 11 results, same thing happened. It was not what I expected. At that moment I realized that the thing that I kept denying all this time was again standing right in front of me. I realized in that moment, holding my report card,in my room that it was all me from the beginning. I blamed almost everything but it never crossed my mind to blame myself. I never thought maybe, just maybe I didn’t study enough or the effort I was putting was not good enough to get the results I was expecting. Everything started to crumble down and I was left right where I stated. I then came to understand that I must accept the fact that I failed. In order to overcome my failure and improve it was the first step. That experience had a big change in my life. From that moment I never thought that my efforts were satisfying. My mentality