How to become the biggest failure?
Do you know what the difference between a Butterfly and a Moth is? No, I am seriously not asking the actual phylogenetic difference. I am talking about the perception difference. The perception of humans. Butterflies are the representation of serenity. They are the emblem of poise and grace. They also signify happiness in life and exuberance of mental health. What about Moth? Moths are the symbol of tragedy, sorrow, and immense grief. In some cultures, they often consider seeing a Moth as a sign of bad luck. Such is the power of perception. In the world of insects, Moths are regarded as a failure. No doubt, Moths are also a sign of the good health of an ecosystem, just like its counterpart butterfly, but perception creates an illusion, and illusion makes a Moth our own household failure. So, let’s dive on and discuss some tricks by which we can become Moth of our own life or become a failure! Let’s raise a toast for being a failure. Let’s celebrate the essence of defeat; let us smear our face with the colors of loss. So, come down from the podium of success, look into the web of failures in 4 points, and ways to achieve them.
1. Embrace uniqueness.
The more you are distinct from the world, the more obstacles you will face, the more roads you will stumble, and the more chances are there to fail. Your friend’s compatriots will be successful doing their job, setting their life, and the unique one will juggle between his choices and society expectations. They think out of the box, and it comes in the clash with traditionalists. I can at least share an instance where the unique one is still suffering and contemplating where he went wrong. The particular guy once participated in his college dramatics club competition. He got the role of a beggar in that story. And his story arc was the most exciting and most prolonged one amongst all characters. A total of 10 characters played the act, receiving widespread accolades. The beggar character received applause for its realistic acting. Surprisingly and ironically, the characters that were played by these 10 characters somehow reflected in their later life after 10 years. The one who played the role of an officer is now a big manager in a bank. The one who played the role of a journalist is now doing creative writing for a firm. The one who played the role of a doctor is now helping needy people in the service sector. Similarly, all the characters are somehow immersed in the tear of reality. The unique guy who played the role of the beggar, who is still running here and there looking to get settled, was thrown out of his school as his professors thought his ideas were absurd. The unique guy is suffering his own uniqueness. Imagine wielding a weapon that is meant to destroy you. What happens when extraordinary people are either way ahead of their time or the society is way backward. So, let us have a cheer for the people who are genuinely unique but, alas, a Failure!
2. Sit at the last bench of a class.
So you are a backbencher! Excellent, as I will have more minor things to analyze about you since you are already a failure. The armor of the backbencher is so powerful that, no matter what marks you score, how creative you are, how talented you are in your hobby, you are a brand of loss and defeat. Teachers will specifically ask you to answer the most straightforward or most challenging questions as obviously you will be unable to solve them. By looking at you, your peers will form notions about your life. Some might brand you as a rebel. Some might also conspire theories as to how you are creating nuisance in the classroom and disturbing the kings and queens of classrooms. There will be hierarchical separation, and you will remain at the bottom. The first benchers will manage to keep a distance from you. And, whatever you do, either bad or good, no use. As for the school, others are the diamonds; you are a stone. So, do you want to join the bandwagon of this failure-ship? The only gift you will receive is the gift of isolation and depression. Welcome backbenchers. Welcome to the world of the hierarchy of loss and shame.
3. Embrace Originality.
There was this guy who was highly skilled in designing experimental setups for a project. He was hired by the doctoral school. He started doing various tasks designing innovative experiments, but it didn’t resonate with his supervisor. The supervisor told him to only give focus on publishing peer-reviewed papers. He was scolded every day because he was more interested in original work; his supervisor was more into the paper world. He was surrounded by paper publishing robots, and The robots were praised by the doctoral school. They were marketed by their supervisor as the representation of intelligence. But he was the representation of ignorance. Do you know he didn’t learn how to use Matlab! He had zero knowledge about programming. What more can you expect from this failure, right! How can someone in the 21st century don’t know to code? Such a loser, right! Finally, one day he was summoned by the doctoral committee, which declared him unfit for the research career. This is the power of Originality, which can easily tag you into the category of the loser.
4. Scoreless, lesser and least in examinations.
The golden point. This category is the easiest one to achieve. So, if you looking for an instant loser/failure designation in your life, consider choosing this. Grades flow like blood in the academic world. Stop the flow; you will turn anemic. The anemic students in this world are kept isolated from the healthy ones. You just need a minimum B grade. The lesser, the better is your failure standards, and society, family, friends, everyone will despise you. This is the beauty of this type of failure. Your healthy friends will be on the front page of websites, hoardings, newspapers, magazines. But you will be invisible. Don’t worry; since no one considers you as a consumer, no one will talk about you. You will be away from all the limelight. Isn’t that exciting!
As we discussed all the four ways to become a failure, we realized that the world is actually somewhat unfair. Nothing is adequately distributed. Neither wealth nor misery. People with the biggest heart and most prominent minds are the greatest sufferers. Some get gold within the terrace of their house, some wander around the universe in search of the stone. Some get to wash their face with spring water, some get muddy rain. We never celebrated the essence of failure. We never ask the last person how he felt during his run on the race track. We never glorified the gravity of loss. We only chased success. We only chased toppers. Never have I seen a newspaper or magazine declaring defeated people like the cover of their pages. Never have I noticed people following failures on social media. We all require our hands, our gaze on the diamond, but never realized the importance of coal. We need a fresh stream of water to drink but never thank the glaciers on the top. We all require a soft and smooth cloth to flaunt our fashion, but never thanked the cotton. That’s why we need to celebrate failure. We need to believe and support that hardworking Sanders, who is somewhere trying to open his first restaurant . We need to commend that future Madonna, who is getting scolded by her teacher for singing out of tune. We need to congratulate the future Abdul Kalam, who is having a hard time designing his rocket. Let’s take a risk. Let’s sing the song of failure.
