"Failure isn't yours… it was made by those around you"
A question that shakes everyone living in this universe! A question that knocks on the heart's door before the mind!
Because of it… many fall into the whirlpool of suicide, death, depression, and every bad thing that happens in life is labeled under one title…
Failure!!
Let’s pause for a moment… Let’s talk about this monster that devours souls, and let’s search for a cure to save us from it…
But before we dive into the battle, we must first understand:
What is failure?!
Simply put—failure is a person’s inability to bear responsibility for something, no matter the circumstances!
And what does this mean?
This doesn’t mean you didn’t succeed… No!
The difference between "not succeeding" and "failure" is vast—we must never confuse the two!
Failure is when you’re unable to take responsibility for doing something.
Not succeeding? That just means you didn’t achieve the desired result when attempting something!
So what’s the flaw then?
The flaw isn’t in not succeeding…
The real flaw—the entire flaw—is in failure!
Yes, failure is a major flaw!
How so?!
Because not succeeding doesn’t mean you gave up—it means you tried, strived, gave your all, but haven’t reached your goal yet!
But failure? It’s complete surrender… It’s stopping altogether, or never even starting in the first place!
Now… let’s ask a simple but profound question that shakes the foundations:
Is failure really inside us
Let’s take a simple example to understand this deeply:
Imagine a rich child—since childhood, his mouth has been fed with a golden spoon! Everything he desires is handed to him, and people obey his every command without question…
On the other hand, another child… relatively poor, but carrying mountains of responsibility on his shoulders from a young age, just to survive.
Now, we put both of them to the test… an exam in a certain subject.
Both have the same textbook,
And they’re told that passing this exam will win them a huge sum of money!
Who do you think will succeed? The rich child? Or the poor one?
Cold logic would say: The rich one, of course!
He has the means! He can afford tutors, advanced tools, everything to make studying and passing the exam easy…
But the biggest shock?
The poor child is far more deserving of success—a billion times more likely to succeed!
Why?!
Because he’s been accustomed to responsibility since childhood!
He’s ready to give his all, stay up late, try, stumble repeatedly, but never stop…
Because before his eyes is one truth:
Succeeding in this exam could change the course of his life forever!
Now look at the rich child…
He might try… or he might not even take the exam!
He has money to buy anything—so no goal, no dream, not even the determination to stay up and study!
He doesn’t know the meaning of struggle, nor does he feel the heat of responsibility!
So simply put…
The environment is what determines whether you’ll fall into the pit of failure or not
How?
By not teaching a person to take responsibility from a young age!
And here, we ask a decisive question:
Does this mean the rich child will remain a failure forever?
Will he live his life unable to take responsibility for himself?!
The truth is: No! He can! And there’s a cure for this!
But before we reveal the cure…
Let’s tell the story of the greatest mind humanity has ever known…
The story of Thomas Edison!
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When Thomas was young, he was rejected at school to the point where they called him stupid… a failure!
Even the principal couldn’t tolerate his presence and sent a letter to his mother saying:
"Your son is too stupid to learn, and we don’t want him in school anymore!"
His mother was devastated… Her tears fell like a flood. The little boy, Thomas Edison, saw her and innocently asked:
"Why are you crying, Mom?"
Here… she could have crushed him. She could have told him the harsh truth, planted a lifelong complex in him…
But she didn’t!
Instead, she said with a voice full of tenderness and faith:
"The school is amazed by your intelligence. They said having you there might make the other students jealous, so it’s better for you to learn at home!"
From that moment on…
She sat with him and began teaching him science!
And this child fell in love with knowledge, with his mother’s teaching style, and became enchanted by learning!
When he turned ten, he asked her for something strange…
He said with determination:
"I want a chemistry lab in my room!"
What did she do?
She gathered all the money she had, fulfilled his small dream, and dedicated a room in the house as his lab—with all her love.
The child entered happily, eyes shining, and his mother left him to take responsibility for discovering himself…
And here, Thomas Edison faced his first real responsibility in life.
But… there had to be a dream!
There had to be a spark burning inside him, pushing him forward!
Then one day, the boy grew stronger until the hardest day came…
His mother was severely ill, needing urgent surgery, writhing in pain.
But the doctor told him helplessly:
"I can’t perform the surgery now. Night has fallen, and we must wait until morning…"
His mother suffered in agony from night till dawn…
But her pain never left Edison’s memory. The image of her suffering never left him!
So he looked at the sky and said to himself:
"My mother can’t keep suffering in the dark… I must find a solution!"
And so began his journey…
A journey not paved with roses!
He tried to invent the electric light bulb…
He tried and didn’t succeed!
Ninety-nine times!
Yes, 99 times he didn’t succeed!
And notice… I said "didn’t succeed," not "failed"…
Because he wasn’t a failure—he was taking responsibility with full strength.
He knew he had to succeed, to light up this world, no matter the cost.
Then came the 100th attempt…
And it was the moment of victory!
He invented the electric light bulb, and it stayed lit for 40 minutes!
So he uttered his historic, immortal words:
"If it can light for 40 minutes, it can light for 100 years!"
Do you see?
Thomas… didn’t fail!
He went through stages:
He started with failure (when he didn’t take responsibility), then moved to not succeeding (when he began taking responsibility and trying),
Then reached the great success that changed the face of the world!
And as a final honor, the town that loved him turned off its lights on the day of his death, out of respect and admiration for him!
Is there a cure for failure
This means one thing:
The cure exists!
The solution is to make a person discover themselves before anything else.
To discover what they love,
To find the talent that moves their mind and heart,
To do what they love as if love is the fuel that drives them in this life!
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Then they begin to dream…
And learn how to enter the battle with a strong heart, feeling the danger if they surrender!
So they fight, try again, once, twice, dozens of times…
Until they reach success,
And achieve the result they desire—or even better than they imagined!
In clearer terms…
You must discover yourself, uncover your true self…
That thing you love from the depths of your heart,
The thing that, when you do it, you pour everything you have into it,
Giving it your time, effort, and soul…
Because you do it with love!
And because you do what you love,
Your heart will be filled with motivation…
That motivation that pushes you to do anything, no matter how hard!
And here comes the big question…
Why do some continue their path despite their first failure, while others collapse and can’t go on
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The reason is simple…
The person who can’t continue simply doesn’t know:
Why do they live? Why do they do what they do? What will happen if they keep going? What’s the purpose? What’s the goal?
And sometimes… the thing they’re doing isn’t something they even love.
They’re forced into it, coerced, trapped.
And here, the heart loses its pulse, and the path loses its meaning!
We must understand this golden rule:
There must be something in a person’s life that they love wholeheartedly,
Something that ignites within them the desire to keep going, no matter how strong the winds!
You weren’t born a student…
You were born with something special inside you…
Something your heart loves,
That gives you the energy to resist life, to rise, to dream,
And achieve what you want… no matter the difficulties!
And here, we must clarify something important:
Failure… isn’t inside us.
We don’t create it…
The environment does! Yes, the environment creates failure! And this is due to not learning responsibility from a young age
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And to shatter this failure,
A person must learn to take responsibility,
And at the same time… discover themselves,
And chase a great dream that lives in their heart…
To live for it and triumph for it!
In the end…
Know that failure doesn’t reside within you, nor were you born with it.
You didn’t create it—
It’s an intruder in your heart,
An intruder planted by an environment that doesn’t teach you responsibility or give you the chance to discover yourself!
But you can…
You can scream in failure’s face: "I am not your slave!"
You can choose your path, fail once, twice, ninety-nine times…
But you don’t surrender, don’t flee, don’t extinguish that dream born with you.
Search within yourself…
Look for what you love, what makes your heart beat,
That passion that gives you the strength to rise after every fall,
And the light that pierces the darkness in your life’s bleakest moments.
Always remember…
Thomas Edison wasn’t born a genius…
He was a rejected, lost, confused child…
But his mother believed in him,
And he chose to believe in himself,
So he lit up the entire world!
And you too…
There’s a light inside you, a spark that won’t fade…
Only if you know yourself and embrace your responsibility,
You will arrive…
And you won’t just light up for forty minutes…
But for a lifetime of impact and immortality!