75/218 Will you stay beautiful when things go downhill? Success is one of the overrated things in life. I'm not saying that it comes easy, it doesn't, but it isn't something that people never get. After a certain level of striving, many people get what they wanted for their life, whatever it maybe. However, many of them realise that they weren't really looking for what they got. They realise that what they want and what they need are two completely different things. It often takes a lifetime to learn what success is and what it isn't but we being innocent hoomans, we like to follow the crowd first and then think for ourselves. But let's talk about it some other day because I'm thinking about failures and the attitude we take post failures. My life has been a barrage of failures. Academics, relationships, and dreams; you name it and I'll tell you how magnificently I failed in everything. Yes I was the boy whose legs and voice would shake when doing a presentation in front of the class. I was, I still am, the kind of boy who repeats mistakes more often than I'd like to admit. Even my cricket, most of the days, reflected the insecurities I had within me. But does that make me a loser in life? I don't think so. I have never seen a person who never failed in life but many of us decide for ourselves that we're failures, overthinkers, ugly, and all the bad things we can think. But I want to know who the hell are you to decide what or who you are without exploring the depths of yourself first?! If one or two failures set the tone of your life ahead, you're heading for skewed experiences in life. Then you'll be blaming people and things for your situation because that's what you made yourself knowingly or unknowingly. Why don't you remember yourself for the best you've done in life? Anyway, I was also talking about attitude in life. Many people work ridiculously hard to achieve what they desire but they would crack themselves up if they lost everything they earned. A lover you loved for decades, an empire you built on your own, a project you devoted your life to; everything could be taken away from you without your consent. You know, life is like that. But how you respond to such things determine what kind of a human being you are and also your experiences of life.
