THE GOOD THING ABOUT FAILURE.....Episode I

                             A Collection of Various  Experiences                                  Written by OKEKE  FRANCIS  CHUKWUMA.

 I like failure, and it informs my positive opinion about it.My recent understanding of it has made many persons ask, what do you mean by the good thing about failure? I remember my sister EBERE once made a comment, “How can failure connote anything good, it is by its very nature negative and so no one would like to identify with it”. Now, the mental shift of my perception about failure has triggered a lot of thoughts and of course received series of patronising criticism of which I am quite willing to contend. I have really wondered about this myself and it makes me laugh anytime I think of it. Obviously this sounds bizarre but not after I have thought of it over and over again so that anyone who thinks otherwise sounds bizarre instead. Don’t mind my intonation; this is not an encouragement for FAILURE but rather a discouragement TO BE FAILED
Before I proceed, I will like to illustrate what seems to be failure. There is an Idoma word “GWONU” which commonly translates to FALL. It also reminds me of the Igbo connotation of the same fall which is “ODIDA”.

The fact of falling suggests inadequacy, the inability to make an accomplishment yet, not to be able to make a particular achievement just yet. This is what I consider to be failure,and in so many ways I think of it aspart of human existence.  I think this gives a lucid meaning to our perception of failure. No one really opts for failure, at least consciously, but since it is something that makes up life, we all tend to face it at some point or the other. Of course all of our failures cannot be equated, while some face their unsuccessful political career, others fail exams, still others fail in their basketball competitions, the list is endless; in fact as a nation we all partake in the failed economy, failed political system, we also have a wonderful and caring government that so much value education so that sometimes schools go on strike for a better part of the academic session with a normalized indifferent atmosphere to go along, and this I consider a failed education system.  What these demonstrate I   think is our entanglement with failure either collectively or exclusively. We have failed, YES. But the emphasis should rather be WHAT DO WE MAKE OF IT?

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