Why Everyone Should Fail At Some Point In Life

I know this subject isn’t quite palatable to the ears of many people out there. I mean why should I be talking about the very thing we are dreadful of? But I tell you what, if you’ve not known failure then you probably have not tasted success before. I have grown to realize that failure is sometimes a prerequisite for success in life. Look around yourself, try to recall the very stories of successful people you heard and read online, I guess you will bear me out on this one. If you have not failed then you haven’t tried anything in life. There are various reasons why I think everyone should fail at some point in their life.

Failure is an opportunity itself.
My colleague Godwin in college used to tell me this but I never understood it and often thought he was just being nice anytime I failed one of my courses. "Some think of failure as the end but I think it is actually a great beginning to a wonderful achievement”, he would say consolably. When we fail, we are mostly exposed to opportunities that we would have missed out if we hadn’t failed. When we are so down because that door closed in on us, we should know that there is another left ajar and waiting for us agonizingly. The best opportunities are found in failures, so if you are failing at whatever you are doing, there is just an opportunity waiting to happen. Don’t give up, keep pushing and you will find that breakthrough.

Failure is strength.
Have you seen a boxer who has been knocked down? Do you see the strength and rage written over his face when he picks himself off the ground? That is the strength we get from failure when we are knocked down by its fierce punches. Failure in life is the right dose for a stronger you. Whenever we fail at doing something, we comeback fully poised for victory. It gets to a time we see our failures as strength instead of our weaknesses. I love to fail sometimes, it gets the lion in me to roar to achieve more.

Failure is a great teacher.
At school, college to be precise, there were many lessons I drew out of my failure in some of my courses. In fact, if I had not failed these courses, I wouldn’t have learnt, trying different methods and exploring different areas about the same subject. At the end of the day, I didn’t only learn to pass my exams, but I learnt enough to enrich myself for life. I look back with no regrets failing those courses. It is the same everywhere. The best inventions were born out of countless failures. They were a result of different trials and tests and even a fresh beginning. The end product of what we learn from failure is a great ingredient for our success.

I think it is time we looked at failure with positive lenses, make the most of them and come back telling stories of our success. Embrace your failure, whenever you fall down, pick yourself back up, it is a conviction that you do not belong to the ground.