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[FEATURE STORY] Celebrating Failure

Celebrating Failure
By Rohaina Dansal



Photo by Andrea Piacquadio

Lub-dub.

Lub-dub.                                                                                             

Lub-dub.

Every single pulse of the students’ heartbeat is turning vague and unusual, causing their red flushing blood to pump anxiously and stream rapidly within the blood vessels of their body.  Some can feel the perspiration on their face, raging directly into their school uniforms, announcing their fear.

Who will not feel more uncomfortable than a student who expects to face a positive or negative mental catastrophe during his day of rejoicing or resentment, the day of revealing the outcome of every student’s performance and productivity as learners? It’s their report card day. Yes, you’ve just named it, the crucial report card day.

Silence will usually veil the four-cornered avenue of learning as each name of the student is proclaimed. Students will typically remain stagnant in their place like they’re freezing in a frigid winter season as their parents receive first their report cards. Their heartbeats run faster again like lightning has suddenly flashed an inch before their eyes as their parents read their grades.

There are only two expected reactions to paint on the faces of the students, the face of satisfaction upon passing, and the face of discouragement upon failing. The face of the perplexed student upon failing is most likely committing bloody red marks on his report card.

Poor time management, lack of perseverance, and lack of focus in their academic study were more often the root of all students’ failure. Students’ expectations are also contributing to their failure. They don’t make and perform their assignments and performance tasks. They don’t study and take their exam seriously. Most especially, they don’t aim for achievement and seek to enhance themselves into a better version. It’s simply because their mindset remains believing that people around them don’t care about them and expect nothing from them. After all, they’re somehow already tagged as unsuccessful individuals.

Is it just because a student failed now mean he is forever a failure? He will likely feel that his worth is the same as how he looks on a map as a mere single point among the seven billion population of the world. It’s like his the smallest dull star among the potentially bright stars.

Failure is something to be celebrated instead of discouraged. It’s the building blocks or foundation of all of the success stories behind those successful people. For instance, according to research, Thomas Edison, whose most memorable invention was the light bulb, purportedly took him 1,000 tries before he developed a successful prototype. “How did it feel to fail 1,000 times?” a reporter asked. “I didn’t fail 1,000 times,” Edison responded. “The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps.”

The key is learning to recover from difficulties and failure, changing in the process, and growing toward success. Life is always a choice. Failure is also a choice. It depends on the student to let the failure beat him or he will be the one to beat the possibility of failure in his life.


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