By Eric Kimaita

This was a thought I adopted after realizing that I don’t quit no matter the many times that I fail. I also realized that we don’t give failure the credit it deserves! One thing I know is that having failed a handful of times, I have more experience compared to the guy who has never failed coz he has never tried on anything! From my story I hope people are going to take lessons from failure rather than mope over it.

Contrary to normal perception, achievers actually fail more times than non-achievers,….simply because they try more times than non-achievers! It is your role to establish to which side you belong; achievers or non-achievers? The largest excuse the entrepreneur ‘wanna-bes’ give are the risk involved and other apparent/non-existent limitations…well, F.Y.I nothing you do in this world that won’t involve risk taking, including getting married! Furthermore, the longest serving American president Franklin D. Roosevelt, though confined to a wheel chair by polio, became the only American president in American history to be elected for a fourth term! Like the Japanese say, “When a true Samurai goes into battle, he is prepared for death, but more often than not it is the opponent who meets death.”

Basically we are living comfortably today because of people who dared to fail, take technology for instance, those were great risks taken with numerous failures before the successes; “It is therefore ironical that we stigmatize people who make mistakes, the same mistakes which helped humanity reach the civilized state it is in today.” Said one Sir. Lim. As poet Keats has written, “failure is in a sense a highway to success, in as much every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every experience points out some error which afterwards we shall carefully avoid.”

What I would like you to know is that if nobody is willing to offer you a job, create one yourself,. Why work for them? Why don’t you work for yourself? Do we go to university to come out as graduates who look for jobs? If that’s the case who’s going to create jobs for the less fortunate non-graduates? I would like to inform the people who embrace their failures that there’s more to that; Many multi- national corporations are today looking out for failed entrepreneurs to recruit because they have learnt lessons from their honest mistakes. A good example is Bill Gates the Microsoft founder and chairman who says he only employs people who have failed elsewhere.

Finally, just like heat is necessary in refining gold, hardships are also builders of humanity. “The hotter the fire the pure the gold…hard times, low times, suffering times are all there to mould you. I will end with a motivation derived from one of our own singer Jimmy Gait who in his latest song ‘Kiguta’(lazy) says that… ‘how hard you work depends on the size of your vision.’ In other words, you will never achieve more than you dreamed, this is to challenge you to take up big enough tasks and aim for another galaxy/star to fall in the sun -if you don’t want to fall in the moon.

Eric Kimaita.

This is my first own composition article so I believe you will like it!

Article Source:  Learning to Love Your Failures


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