The taste of failure is unique.Once you have tasted the failure,that very moment your all senses of taste will change to the emoticon of :/.
The taste sensation is going to persist for some time.The duration of which depend on the prevailing environment.
If you are in the company of some "Chaddi" type of friends then their response is never going to change.They will party whatever is the cause - success or failure..."jaise ki saari duniya hi khatm ho gayi.chal be isko taang aur highway waale dhaabe par le chal,bada aaya...fail ho gaye.jaise ki humesha first aata tha.Talli kar isko"and the party starts.otherwise when alone, there is no one to pick you up from the place you lying "talli" alone.
But in many cases the altered taste persists for some time reminds of the constant insight of the mind"what a loser you are".
There is a positive thing in the failure too.The failure is the only substance that creates the quest and desire for the success.The desire to be the invincible.A person who have never tasted the awful taste of failure can never tell the awesome nature of the success.That creates the driving force to push the paddles harder and zooom past the obstacle.
Today I hit the ground in my very first flight of this phase of my professional life.
Yes,I fell from the height.
The height of my imaginations.
The height of my unworthy expectations.
May be I didn't deserve to be at that height yet and I feel , to reach at that height one has to crawl over several obstacles and the cuts and bruises are bound to touch your flesh and soul.But the necessity is to overcome the fear from the height.One can fly higher when he has overcome the fear for height.You might have seen the eagle flying peacefully at the top of the sky but to reach that height it has to flap its wings harder in the beginning. It is rightly said-
“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― Milan Kundera
I dont know whether all the glory of failure applies to me or not but I have heard somewhere that
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
May be I should have struck the ground harder so as to rise higher.
Whatever the glory is talked about the failures by the people but it really tastes awful and i dont think that it is going away any sooner.I hope it remains with me till I succeed and I am going to live with it every moment of this bad taste till then.
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