Dawn Lim . Net

Failures leads to success. How many times have we heard this? So many motivational talks touches on this topic. It could be a life of a successful tycoon, a talk on goals setting or how to be a good leader. Whatever seminar or workshop you attend, there’ll be this topic.

I have heard it so many times. There’re even books written on failing such as Dare To Fail. I have known all along, ever since I started attending workshops and seminars, that failures leads to success (coz they all said it). Hence, my ability to always look at things at the bright side. People ask where I got all my positivity from. From knowing that failure leads to success. And also for being a firm believer that everything happens for a reason.

I knew. Yes. I practice what I know. Yes. But I never really knew or realized what it really meant until recently. Now I understand what it truly means. I was blinded. Blinded by my passion. Dance. Blinded by my dream. Dancer. Blinded by memories. Blinded by ‘what if I still can’. Blinded that I didn’t want to know what else I have to offer. But the world ain’t waiting for me.

I have done things I love. I have done many things I do not. I have done things I have no feelings whatsoever towards. Just for the sake of it. But I realize each thing that fails to fulfill my life only leads me to find my new unfound passion. I’m a little girl. Searching. Exploring. The different colours the paints can create on my drawing board. My world. Each wrong mixture of colours will let me know what I should not mix the next time.

I realized this but my visit to the bookstore confirms my ‘realization’. I was flipping through a book by John C. Maxwell, the leadership expert and a few sentences on the page I opened struck me. It goes something like that:

Now I know the road that I do not have to travel again,

The mountain I do not need to climb again,

And the valley I never have to cross again…

Embracing failures as a blessing in disguise is exactly what I intend to do. Not just this year but for the many years, days and every moment I have on this earth.