For us to always scale through every form
of defeats and make a mark in this world there is usually a form of education
we need. This education can only exist in the “University of Hard Knocks”; its
levels/classes consist of various turning points in one’s life, which is a mix
of bitter and sweet experiences and it is the only university that we never
graduate from till death.
Napoleon Hill in his statement, said my experiences have led me to the belief
that the “dumb language” of defeats is the plainest and most effective language
in the world, once one begins to understand it. It is a universal language in
which nature cries out to us when we will listen to no other language.
Defeat is a destructive force only when it
is accepted as failure. When accepted as a teaching some lessons, it is always
a blessing.
There can be no failure for the man who
“still fights on”. A man has never
failed until he accepts temporary defeats as failure. There is a wide
difference between temporary defeats and failure:
I believe that failure is Nature’s plan
through which she hurdle-jumps men of destiny and prepares them to do their
work. Failure is nature’s great crucible in which she burns the dross from the
human heart and so purifies the metal of the man that it can stand the test of
hard usage.
If you go back in time, the so-called
failures of the past (from Socrates to Christopher Columbus to Thomas Paine and
even Jesus Christ) meant more to human race than all the so called success
records in the history of the world.
Always remember that the wheels are always
turning. If it brings us sorrows today, it will bring us joy tomorrow. Life is
a cycle of varying events – fortune and misfortunes. We can’t stop the wheel of
fate from turning, but we can modify the misfortune it brings us by remembering
that good fortune would follow, just as surely as night follows day. If we only
keep faith with ourselves and earnestly (and /or honestly) do our best.
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