Imagine yourself living in a vast desert, with the sun scorching the sand and igniting a thirst within you.
At that moment, you will have to search for water, and you are faced with two options: either death or water.
Success here is finding water and staying alive.
And when you get water and quench your thirst, you will think about food and search for it.
This is success.
Success differs for each of us from time to time, from person to person, and from one situation to another.
Success for a person 100 years ago was different from success today, and success differs between a person living in the Middle East and a person residing in one of the European Union countries.
It even differs between you and your twin brother.
Success for you today is different from success for you in the future.
This, in turn, changes the meaning of failure, which has no fixed standard, as what you see as failure may be seen by others as success.
I am not here to talk about success, as there are many books that have addressed it, but I want to talk about failure.
I believe the first failure we all faced in our lives was when we were learning to walk as children.
The first stumble and fall for us was a failure and the first real challenge in our lives, but the child's natural ability to continue trying, learning from failure and stumbling, is what achieved their first success.
And this is what we must maintain: our extraordinary ability to rise after every stumble and to learn from every mistake and failure, turning failure into accomplishment.
One day, someone said to me a quote that has stuck with me and always motivated me:
"Pride is not in never falling but in getting up every time we fall."
Never imagine that you will succeed completely or fail completely on any given day.
Inside every failure lies success, and inside every success lies some failure.
Real success is achieving happiness.
Happiness, contentment, and peace of mind are the greatest successes.
By: Maher Daboul
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