Failure is impossible

“Failure is impossible.” – Susan B. Anthony

Is it really impossible to fail? Are some failures simply unsuccessful attempts to accomplish what we set out to do, or do all failures ultimately provide some benefit, even if we can’t see it right away?

Susan Jeffers said, “Feel the fear and do it anyway.” Who dares, wins. Failure and success happen to be the obverse and reverse of the same coin. The creator of this universe has not endowed even a single soul with infallible precociousness. Thus it is idiosyncratic trait of humans to fail, but failure doesn’t imply a full stop. Success is only a result of a thousand failures and hence the apparent failures are no failures at all but are blessings in disguise! it is simply impossible to fail!

Thomas Alva Addison – the inventor of the light bulb- failed a thousand times and said, “I’ve only found a thousand ways that don’t work!” People like Walt Disney have suffered great setbacks in their lives before they succeeded. In fact Disney attributed his success to the ‘kicks in the teeth that he received’. Even the ‘Upanishads’ show us the path of Neti-Neti (neglecting all untruth till one finds the truth). Thus the failures are like embellishments on the petticoat of a bashful maiden!

The iconoclasts and the heretics dominate the world. The radical people have throughout the history ousted the orthodoxical ones! Taking instances from history, people like Bhagat Singh have ignited hearts of individuals. The French revolution may have failed in its immediate motive to overthrow the haughty imperialism but in the longer run it did succeed. Thus we see that failure is impossible!

Failure and success are more or less the fixated belief systems that people bear. A Chinese proverb says, “A man who believes it cannot be done must not stop the one who is doing it.” The pessimistic turns the greatest of the fanfare into self-abasing caricature while the optimistic people have the knack of transforming the woes to hey-nonny-no!

Failure as such exist for the ones who believe that they do! Success and failures are subjective realities. Success is light and failure is dark; the great cause of the night is the lack of luminescence! Therefore the apparent failures must be - just as a philosopher’s stone converts base metal into gold – transmuted to success. The great valor and aptitude needed for the voyage is faithfully stuffed and ingrained with most munificent air of charity by the all mighty!