The Right to Fail

Kasher Strachan
Professor Viechweg
ENG 096-06 College English
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The Right to Fail
The mention of the word “failure” makes me uncomfortable, just like it does to many others. When a person learns that he or she has failed in a task that he dedicated most of the time, he or she becomes very disappointed, and others even end up giving up at that one trial. Joanne Rowling, the author of Harry Potter novels, says It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default. Everyone, therefore, has ever failed at some point in their lives. Nevertheless, how should we perceive failure? Is it dragging us behind or propelling is for a better achievement? I think it is very okay to fail (Katkar, 16).
Failure makes us go deep into the problem where we even get more understandings about it. The first thing we do after failing at something is going back to check where we might have gone wrong. Once we get where the problem is, we try to work on the project once again, now correcting the mistake we made at first. This way, we learn many new things that make us strong in life. Emerging successful after understanding where we went wrong gives us a sense of fulfillment and joy. It is, therefore, okay to fail because we get to enrich our understandings of different situations (Katkar 17).
We learn to take more risks in life by knowing that it is okay to fail. Fear of failure has held our dream behind. We end up terminating the projects we were planning to start, or even those that we had already started when the thought of failure crosses our minds. Fear instills pain in our souls as a result of unsuccessful projects. Pain is associated with failure, and most people would rather not feel pain. Notably, knowing that it is okay to fail drives away the fear and the pain and allows us to take more risks. Living a very cautious life is a no-development to anyone because that in itself snatches opportunities from us. We can only earn rewards by taking risks and not by living with fear. This can only be achieved by knowing that it is right to fail.
We get new ways of doing things through failing. When we fail in a particular task, we always tend to look for an alternative way of doing it. It should not matter how many times we fail. Thomas Edison invented the electric light bulb after failing for and trying again after trials of over 10, 000 times...