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Name: Daniel Chinedu Udebunu
An Article by Daniel
Failure: Only a posponed Success
Success according to the New Lexicon Webster’s Dictionary is the accomplishment of what is desired or aimed at. Samuel Johnson said,’Life affords no affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. He is correct. Success is a thing of Joy. Through life many hurdles abound; every hurdle successfully crossed gives some kind of internal merriment, elation and self-esteem. But like all good things, there’s a bad side to it. Success has its detriments, which could include death.
Conversely, failure leads to despair, depression, misery and a lot more. As Ilka Chase would put it, ‘The only people who never fail are those who never try. Following these unarguable precepts, we are bound to fail at different times in life. But rather than attributing our failure to fate or to someone, failure is meant to be accepted as part and parcel of life and as a step to success.
Abraham Lincoln puts it differently, ‘ Success is passing from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm’. That doesn’t necessarily mean that whenever we fail, we should relax and be satisfied that perhaps a greater success awaits us. Thomas Edison once said, ‘show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I’ll show you a failure’. These, one might argue are the many faces of failure. But hard work, struggling is what I advocate. This is perhaps captured more vividly by the wag who wrote ‘never say die’ on a 911 lorry. Wilson Mizner lends me a sentence, ‘The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn’t been asleep’. We might add,’ that he has been working in his sleep.
We should learn to always try again and again. History is replete with people who do this.
Abe Lincoln was perhaps the greatest ‘failure’ who became the American President. Sam Egwu, the governor of Ebonyi State in Nigeria, was once a cab driver.
Try, try and try again. For failure is just a postponed success.
Chinedu Udebunu (SAINT)
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