February
The following quote, “Don’t be afraid to fail. Be afraid NOT to try,” is a quote everyone should keep in mind. There are a lot of things this is applicable to. When your parents are forcing you to do something or when you are at a function and everyone is trying to make you perform, you should keep this quote in mind! Imagine this, you are being forced to give a performance, but you just get mad at everybody for not understanding your emotions. Then, your archnemesis blows everyone’s mind with her dancing skills which aren’t even that good. You just lost the chance of becoming the center of attention. By not trying you are saying goodbye to potential opportunities and possibilities.
People are always afraid to embarrass themselves, they don’t want to try because if they fail, they feel they will never be able to face that obstacle again. People are afraid to fail because that one thing they have failed at is going to haunt them their entire life. So, what is the solution they come up with? Simply just not to try so there won’t be any chance to fail. But if Mark Zuckerberg didn’t try there would be no Facebook! Or if Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn didn’t try there wouldn’t have been internet! Imagine your life without either of these things, it is difficult isn’t it? Now, imagine what you have been missing on by simply choosing not to try?
Teenagers, including me, always fear what other people think about us. We teenagers will only try things that our peers are trying, we don’t want to be the odd one out. We won’t do things that our parents will tell us because we don’t realize they know the best for us and we also think of those things as silly. Kids will not try things for the stupidest reasons! For instance, when I was about 9, my parent were making me eat bottle gourd, I wouldn’t eat it just because it’s color was a weird green and I strongly disliked it! I told them I wouldn’t eat it until and unless the color was changed. Now that I look back at that memory, I just laugh at myself. After I try it I know it isn’t as bad as it looks to me. I just had to try it to start liking it.
By not trying you are not only saying goodbye to potential opportunities and possibilities, you aren’t learning. Remember last month, we had to expand on the quote by Neil Gaiman about making new mistakes? Well, it plays role here, too. It is like science, after you have performed an experiment and possibly failed the first time, you try again but this time around you are careful not to make the same mistake, you make new mistakes along the way but you learn from them and finally, you have succeeded in that experiment. You had to try hard and learn from your both old and new mistakes.
Apply this quote to your life, try everything, or later you might hear yourself saying these words of regret, “I wish..” or “Why didn’t I...” Grab the opportunity when you have it. Try your best, but most importantly “Don’t be Afraid to Fail. Be Afraid NOT to try.