Success and failure, in their essence, are the result of a certain event—passing the exam or not, wining the prize or not, being together or not, etc.—which are incompatible at the same time for a specific matter. However, they can be transferred into the causes of the next event and the way depends how people interpret them: success clears the road directing the effectiveness and ups the confidence (positive self-prediction and prophecy) and failure sums up the lessons learned from the past and whet the will; or, success blinds one’s eyes with arrogance and failure gets one down and make him never to rise again. A unity of result and reason. Not only failure can be the seed of success, but success too, as they both can be the seeds of failure.
Do failures make sense? The answer will be yes and innumerous examples await the marshalling commend to guard against this point—name a well-known one: after countless failures Edison eventually invented the light bulb. Regardless of the authenticity of this story, it at least tells one truth: in our culture, failure is meaningful based on the future success; in other words, the final success will justify a hundred failures, but if not, “Who is Edison?”
I have neither interest nor way to overthrow the view of success-orientation—up to a point, it is what it is. I aspire to succeed as intensely as I dream of being failure proof and I don’t deny it. Because, in the one-way train of life with a great many unknown stops ahead, just out of the probability, it’s highly unlikely to pass the success stops or failure stops solely—they are interposed with each other. Failure stops make huge sense and are full of meaning. Because meaning never lies only in the stops of accomplishment, but in every stop—in moving, in changing, and in becoming. After all, once the train really ends its trip on some certain success stop, it stops everything.
People who achieve several goals in succession would think he is still himself,but if struck by failure, he would instantly think he has changed, which is untrue—virtually,no matter get new success or failure, one will change all the same.
Five keys to success ends this article: first, don’t go to school with empty stomach; seconds, air the quilt in the fine weather; third, pay attention to the passing vehicles when crossing the road; forth, don’t rely on others’power; and fifth, play on the ground barefoot.
