On failures...

Its not where you fell, but where you slipped that you should think about, says an old saying. Everyone of us have faced failures in life, some big, some small, and yet we live through them. No matter what, we endure all failures except the ones where we die. Even those may not be the end of the road. The point is, that failures as such may not be a big thing in themself than the attitude with which one deals with them. There is ofcourse no greater failure and misery than not trying. As someone said, it does not matter if you lose as long as you don't lose the lesson. And the chinese proverb captures the spirit of perserverance aptly, "stand up just one more time than you fall and you shall be through". Many a times situations may seem hopeless, nevertheless by pushing ourselves we may atleast show the way for others. As Gita says(2nd chapter), if dead you will enjoy the heaven, and if you win you will enjoy the earth..so why do you despair to fight on a righteous path? Beyond enjoying heaven or earth is the point that krishna makes in (11th chapter??) , the war will be fought with or without you, you are just an instrument in the divine hand. Claim not the victory or the failure as yours, for you are just an medium nothing more. This way, he says you can be free from all actions you do.
When one is unaffected by outcome of an action and only has a sense of duty towards doing it..how can a failure depress you or why would a success elate you? To such a person, playing with a small child may be as joyful as winning an award or surpassing a limit. Yet he/she would do the job with perfection and walk away from it without looking to possess either the creation, or the fame that comes from the accomplishment. One of the things that drives such a person is their level headedness in both sucess and failure.

Long time ago in one of the reflective moments these words flashed,
"Every success comes with the fear of failure and every failure with the hope of success".