Personal Narrative: Failure Is Not The Alternative To Success

Failure is not the alternative to success. It’s something to be avoided, but it’s also only a temporary setback on a bigger, more significant course. Everybody encounters failure at one point or another. What truly matters is how you react to and learn from that failure. I believe in hard work and practice, that what matters to me the most. You can’t succeed at anything if you quit, this is the principle that I follow now a days. But there is a story behind this…what actually made me turn into an optimist from a pessimist. I had participated in an intra college technical paper presentation event which had nearly 15 participants, including me. I had prepared well for presentation and selected very good topic which explained about making use

The result I knew before they announced it. Yes, I was the winner securing first prize in national level competition, I was a confident young man, with lot of confidence, and self-belief and person holding the success in his hand – the trophy, at that moment I got satisfaction that never can be compared or measured. Overcoming my weakness, defeating my previous competitor’s, and proving my caliber to my faculty members, which boosted my confidence a lot. The event called presentation which was a demotivating factor in the year 2010, motivated me to be the best presentator in the year 2012. The journey from failure to success and success built on the foundation of failure which in end turned out to be great motivating factor in order to achieve success. And I secured 6 back to back prizes for technical paper presentation both in state and national level competitions, and hence became one of the most successful students to pass out in flying colours who already had a job in his hand. Same faculty members ended up calling me “Great Padiyar”, which was very special feeling for me and especially when they address you in front of your parents that feels