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Success is good and that's why most people chase it in life, forgetting that there's no success without failure. In every success there's always a taste of failure but the success story is what used to overshadow the show of failure in every man's life.
The existence of the word failure in the dictionary can not be overlooked as it has shown us that failure exists in life and that it's to be known that there would be a time in one's life when failure will be experienced which is normal.
But even at that, there's one thing I have got to know in life and that thing is that, there's no excuse for failure. I have come to the realization that there's no excuse for failure and in lieu of that, I have always guarded myself against failure and not only that, I have always seen failure as an opportunity for me to make progress and succeed in life.
Hmmm, if carefully examined, one would see that there's opportunities in failure and that failure is always loaded with experiences. Like the popular saying that experience is the best teacher, so also is failure as failure would always teach us lessons about life and these lessons would in turn spring us back to life if determined to succeed in life.
I'm only saying these things just to show us how failure has dealt with me in the past and how I have been able to overcome it and record the needed success in life.
My failure started very early in life and that was when I sat for my WASSCE examination. Then, I was one of the brilliant students in my class and for this reason, I was appointed or let me say chosen as the head boy of the school. But when it got to the examination time, the unexpected happened and I failed all my core subjects woefully. This performance didn't really meet the expectations of people and I too was disappointed in myself, but one thing I did was not to let the failure get to me as I immediately sprung to action. Though, it's not so easy for me to fight back because of so many things attached to my performances in the examination.
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This my performance brought to me shame, frustration and disappointment, but notwithstanding I fought back to life by reviewing the cause of the failure and after that, I read and personally developed myself on every sides that I needed to and to only that, I was determined this time around not to let what happened in the last examination happened to me again and lastly in my recovering process, I made serious of consultations just to make sure I win the next battle against failure and at the end, I recorded success in my next examination. Though not as easy as being thought of, I made success out of my failure and till now, the process to my success story in my last examination has become part and parcel of me. And I have really been making use of that process whenever I am faced with failure.
Just recently, I had to battle with failure in my investment. But with the processes and the lessons I have learnt so far in tackling failure, I was able to come back to life. It happened that I formed a partnership business with a friend. This business is a livestock business and it all happened that everything just went down unexpectedly as the result of the insincerity of the man, but instead of me being depressed by the act of the man, I was never deterred as I went back to the drawing and followed the due processes of my recovery method and lo and behold i was able to overcome and forge ahead.
Though, it's not easy, but I made it back to life. Less I forget, the only thing added to the processes was that, is to believing in myself and not only that, I also put God at the center of everything and when the storm was brewing up, the first thing I did was to consult God in prayer and now, the rest is history as I have really made my mark to achieving success in life despite all what I have passed through and the failures experienced.
So, failure is normal and there's no sin in falling, but the inability to rise again can be the most disastrous thing that can happen to a failed person. No one is born to fail and like myself, I didn't allow my failure to define me, but instead fought against it with strong determination. Also, let me tell us that there's only a thin line between failure and success and that there's no excuse for failure as people only embrace success and detest failure.
This is my entry to the hiveghana weekly prompt.
Thanks for reading.
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