FAILURES.

What does not kill you makes you stronger, they say. It might bend you, wring you or push you to the wall but it doesn't kill. In failures lies lessons. Having been a serial failure, I can point out the number of times I have gotten life-changing lessons. It is in the pain, the disappointments, the heartaches and despair that we grasp life's greatest lessons.

It took Trevor Noah losing his dog for him to understand that you love people y don't own them. The fact that people are in your life is in no way a means to an end. Individuals can decide to chart their own paths whether you love them or not. Its a relationship, not ownership.

Henry Ford is quoted to have said, “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” Certainly, we would all agree. You’ve just learned all the wrong ways toward that particular success, as Edison did with his “ten thousand” wrong attempts. Every lesson learned, every failure, is a movement in the right direction.

“For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour,” a quote from Mary Kay Ash. She was the founder of the very successful home business for leading cosmetics. Perhaps, the lesson of the failure is that there may be a better or a different way to achieve your goal.

Benjamin Disraeli, a former British Prime Minister said, “All my successes have been built on my failures.” Indeed, failure is only a tipping point when one is on the road to success. Without failure, we as humans don’t learn and our movement toward success is stagnated. Let failure be a guide toward success instead of a stopping point.

It took a fall in my own life for me to understand that life is not linear. There are different ways of doing life and since we are all unique then we will do life differently. So I have purposed not to look at any other person's life but mine.

Where did you fail, and in what way did you learn?