1553rd BLOG POST -->>
Who does not like winning every
time they bend to run for the race? Who does not imagine themselves on the victory
stand when the referee shouts “Go” and one starts running? Winning becomes a
habit and then the performers do not want to see back. They want to be on the
Victory stand every time they are participating for something. If they are
doing something that does not belong to their profession, they want to score
big and set their mark even there. I had always read biographies and
autobiographies of inspirational personalities and I only took those lessons in
my habits that described them winning something big. I never much concentrated
upon their chapters where they described how they kept losing continuously. I
found it boring.
I found it boring because in my
life I have lost many a times and I didn’t have energy to appreciate losing any
more. Even when I tried for something very hard and gave my 100% but someone
else won and not me, I would feel frustrated and down for weeks. It happened most
of the times when I was in Graduation and I felt that I am not getting the kind
of due I expect because of the efforts I was putting in everything- either
during exams or extra-curricular activities. I always found either a
non-deserving person getting the footage or someone less-deserving than me.
This made me lose my interest from college after a while and made me move
towards Blogging and reading more passionately. Ultimately, my results didn’t turn
out the way they could have been. Alas! Gone times do not return back in life.
But then I learnt while reading
one of an inspirational books about Learning to Fail which made me realize how
even those chapters in the autobiographies are equally important which
described about failures. And then I started failing at things. Initially, I kept
my targets low which I knew that I can achieve easily even by sleep-walking and
loved seeing the longest continuous streak of my achievements. But suddenly, I
started feeling that by winning such easy races, I am making myself mediocre
and fooling no one else but me. I had purchased fitness band after which I
completed my daily target of 12,000 steps for initial few days and then I fell
ill. To keep my streak unbeaten on the App which tracks my work-out, I set the
target almost as low as 20% of 12,000 steps. But after a time, when I realized
that my body is feeling no changes in itself and as per my new resolution and
personal commitment, I am doing actually nothing, I came to the conclusion that
let’s start failing at achieving these 12,000 steps target. Only then I will
understand how can these steps be completed on daily basis and achieving it
will actually make me feel like a Champion. And I did that. The result is that
last week, I ended up crossing 18,000 steps twice on consecutive days.
Similarly, writing 200 Blogs has
been my target every year. But later on, whenever I saw by October that I am
not reaching this number, I used to reduce the target to 150 Blogs. I did the
same last year and ended up reaching even that. 144! Now that I know that
fooling me has done nothing good to my blog lately as I stopped writing such
kind of personal posts and only concentrated on reviews to achieve my yearly
targets, my blog lost its charm on its regular readers. This year, I have
decided not to cheat myself by trying to reduce the count of blogs to win the
race or only reviewing books and movies for the count to reach the target. Now,
if I will fail, I will actually come to know the reasons behind my failures. As
I have accepted by previous year’s failure of reaching the count that made me
realize how my readers have actually stopped following my blogs passionately as
earlier because they know that they are only going to know about someone else’s
work rather than my thoughts and opinions with which they connected from last
5-6 years.
We should start failing ourselves
by not compromising on the quality of work and the amount of work needed to be
done which will give us the real ultimate pleasure and content when we will
finally achieve the goal. Being the winner always just for glorifying ourselves
by showing our victory is the biggest nonsense that we can do with our lives.
Let’s respect the potential we, as human being, have. Let’s utilize it to the
fullest. Let’s fail again and again by not reaching up to that level. That will
make us realize the negative points which are not letting us achieve the goals
that we, ourselves, set when the year begun or on our birthday. Ultimately, we
will start fighting to stop losing which will lead to the bigger victory than
before. Crossing that final line will never let you see back to the failures
and you will then become the winner till the last breathe as you would know the
insights of winning the game. Be a Loser! Yes!
Thanks.
ABHILASH RUHELA – VEERU!!! 
