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The best lessons in life can only be realize through several failed missions

Just like many businesses have strategic plans for long-term and short term objectives, it’s crucial to have one at a personal level. Today youths are facing a big challenge in coping up with the dynamics of life simply because most of us were brought up believing that failure was not a good thing hence terrified to land on it and see what it offers. We were never taught to believe that indeed we can, rather we should not fail, starting with our education system from early childhood, children are trained to pass exams and never to question why.

We believed that, I have to pass because that’s  what my parents want from me, my teacher and even relatives, but what if I was made to believe I can always do it regardless of the outcome! Weather failure was inevitable in this case I still go ahead to do what I believe I can do. Many of us have missed important lessons that come with failure, failure is not a bad thing after all, it may not sound logic but take it from me, the best lessons in life can only be realize through several failed missions. Unfortunate, dozens try as much as we can to evade not just failure itself but the idea of how it feels, makes us lie back to our comfort zone than give it a try. Accepting defeat before giving it a shot, better die trying, it counts, parents too try to exempt us from this. The major problem that we have is misinterpretation of things, for example listens keenly to youths talking about life experience, you will be left wondering, is that it! 

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