Shazmeneh Durrani
Professor Mitchells Jackson
Writing 066
December 02 2014
Success and failure are both inevitable aspects of the
human struggle to attain some form of fulfillment. It is only natural, human
for us to yearn for success and avoid all failure and it is equally natural for
us to display our extreme level of pride over our accomplishments. We give
exams, we sit for interviews, we apply for jobs, we invest in relationships and some of us excel. We secure a numerically brilliant grade on our
sheet, or make it to an exceptional position at a firm and try every possible, discreet way to show it all those who did not.
Our success doesn’t feel as over-powering, as meaningful until we don’t hear some kind of
applaud, or gain some form of joy by announcing it to the world and it is true
that success gradually becomes something that we want to show to the world more than something we invest value in for our own good. But, more than success, interestingly
it is failures inseperable relationship with having an audience. For me,
personally, failure does not exist. Failure is just another one of the various
man-made constructions that strengthen our self-demeaning stance; it is just a
perception.
In instances where I don’t secure myself an extra-ordinary score, I
will not have failed in my own eyes, I would have done a poor job or I would
perhaps call it my negligence but it only becomes failure when I compare myself
to others. As I stand admist people who chase success so blindly and
impeteously, I find myself to be a true failure only because they are there to
witness me, to make me feel incapable in their comparison, only because I do
not worship success, I pursue excellence and if my excellence doesn’t match
theirs doesn’t mean I failed.
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