Life is but a chronicle of success and failure many times. Our success or failure in life cannot be decided in the middle of life.

A human being has been given both success and failure in his lifetime, but we cannot decide when it will be in our lives, meaning if we have success now probably we will have failed in the later part of our life and vice versa. We cannot decide what is the truth of our life at any stage. We should not compare ourselves or our family or our children or our job/business / or our wealth status with anyone at any stage of life. Each one goes through his ups and downs as per his life cycle. So you may be down in life when your friend is high in life and there will be a time when you will be immensely happy and see that your friend is in sorrow.

The success and failure in individual growth paths prohibit early evaluation of being successful or a failure during the entire journey. In youthful days students and youngsters face life-defining moments that do not define the person you are and definitely are not a benchmark of being successful or being a failure at that point in time.

Your success or failure as a human being can be measured only at the last stage of your life. Till then you are still metamorphosing in all dimensions, be it family, finances, wealth, personality, fame, etc.  Problem is that Humans have short-term vision and they evaluate themselves on basis of that and declare themselves to be unfit for society. No event, however great can put a break in a life journey.

Life is like a marathon race in the stadium, with humans running in laps. Each lap we complete, cannot decide the winner. We have to complete the entire race to decide the winner always. Likewise, we cannot decide whether our life is successful or unsuccessful in the mid-stage of life on the basis of whether our life was/is a boon or a bane. We should stop comparing ourselves with our peers or neighbors or our kin. We always do it inadvertently or unknowingly.

Just to give an understanding, we feel bad when our friends get better marks in the school/college and we feel like a loser, but maybe later we may pass with distinction & vice versa or let’s say our cousin gets a job in a foreign country and you are struggling to get a job itself, you feel miserable, and later you may get promoted to a higher position with better salary & vice versa. These are just a few examples to relate with our situations taking a toll on our mental health in real life.  We should decide at a later stage of life i.e. around 70+ of our age, whether our life has been successful or unsuccessful.

Success and failure are the milestones in the individual journey towards the attainment of goals and mission. Lessons learned during the journey give insight and assist us in achieving our targets till the end of our life.