Failure - Is It The End ? or, The Beginning ?

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas A. Edison

"In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time." - Anthony J. D' Angelo

Failure - does it really mean that we have failed ? Or, does it mean that if we work hard enough, than someday success will come to us ?

Personally I feel that failure is just another way of saying - "WAIT FOR ME, I'LL BE SUCCESSFUL ONE DAY". Its more like a learning curve where we learn from our mistakes, or better to say that we learn from our not so pleasant experiences. Some days back when I was browsing through the internet I came across these few lines somewhere I cant recall now, but here they are -

"What is the meaning of life ?
'Taking pain,' said the nail.
'Keeping cool,' said the ice.
'Driving hard,' said the hammer.
'Being up-to-date,' said the calendar.
'Being sharp,' said the knife.
'Making light around you,' said the fire.
'Sticking to it,' said the glue.
'Being bright,' said the lamp.
'Being on time,' said the clock.
'Saving a drop,' said the faucet.
And best of all, 'learning from it,' said the mistake."

Previously I used to think that life is fairytale and like a fairytale I thought it was full of happy surprises, exciting, vivid. But now I've come a long way to realise that there is more to life than just this 'Happily Ever After', we get wiser through our mistakes, and no miracle can make us happy or lead us to happiness. I've come to realise that each day we strive, we fight, and finally we move to understand that we have what it takes to beat the odds, and make life all the more meaningful.

But in our quest to success, we have to be dedicated to it, we have to be dedicated to make that difference, to make that winning move. And no matter what comes and goes we must learn never to give up, we must always continue to fight in good spirits and we must have faith in what we do, because nothing can be done without faith and optimism.

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." -Thomas A. Edison.

In the end just remember that in this little planet of ours there is no end to ones problems, there is no end to failures and miseries that follow it, but never lose your heart and never give up on your dreams because you never know what tomorrow will bring, just keep the fight on...