Never fall back on, fall forward-these words of Denzel Washington can have a great influence on us. Now, if we think deeply, we will understand that life cannot exist without failures and downs. The whole life is a chain of ups and downs, and if you give up from the first failure, you will never gain success. The point is, never be upset about failing, do not care about what society says, do not care about what they talk about you, they can say anything, they can say that you’re not good enough, that you’re incapable, that you’re unlucky. Don’t listen to them, they are jealous of what you got, they’re jealous of your talents. What you really must do, is prove to them that they are wrong. You must prove to them that you’re strong enough to ignore all of that and concentrate on your improvement. On the way to success, you must get rid of all the things that bother you, there’s you and your goal.
Another quotation from Washington is if you don’t fail, you’re not even trying. There is no such human living in our world that can always succeed on his first try. It isn’t bad if you fail, it is bad if you don’t learn a lesson from that. Every failure teaches you an important lesson, every failure gives you another key to your success. And if you don’t take the key, you won’t be able to succeed. Achieve your goal by learning from your mistakes. Try one more time, this time you’ll be better, you’ll be more prepared and you’re on the next level.
I want to talk about one more thing. Some teachers, principals, or bosses have a habit to give the opportunity to better students, better employees, and workers. That’s obviously natural, you want the better ones to present your company, your school, or class, but if you do that all the time, you’re just stealing others’ opportunities. You need to work on them as well, you need to give them the opportunity, to get an idea about it, otherwise, they won’t become better, and even worse, they will lose the faith in themselves.
So, if you ever feel that you’re useless to society, if you feel that you’re not valued at all, that’s only because they don’t know your cost yet.