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By Asma Shaikh Feroz Ali<\/strong><\/p>\n As students the only expectation from us is to get good grades and move on to a job without an accident in between. Accident here means failure. The seven-letter word can frighten any student as once associated with the word either the world becomes an emotional war zone or the devil inside the victim succeeds in destroying the human by suicide.<\/p>\n India is known to have the highest suicide rates among the youth. It\u2019s sad because every hour a student commits suicide mainly due to their fear of failure. Among those students, there are some who underestimate themselves to the point where they stop studying and take up jobs that don\u2019t match their intellectual levels. If the victim has a supportive family they change schools due to shame and fear of ill-treatment or just leave their towns; some get into the world of drug addiction because the society we live in treats failure as bad as a crime. The bitter truth is that the very people who ill-treat you for failing will treat you like a God if you succeed after failing.<\/p>\n What happens if one fails? Words can\u2019t explain the pain because it\u2019s easier for anyone to say that they were bullied by their mates, or that teachers refused to teach them or ill-treated them, the re-exam was harder, they lost their friends because their parents don\u2019t want their kid to be around a failure, neighbours and relatives look down upon them and underestimate them and so on. What\u2019s tough is that it is harder to face a world where the victim of failure is no longer valued or loved just because he\/she failed.<\/p>\n As humans when we first learn to walk, we don\u2019t just stand and walk impressively like a gentleman or a lady, we fail several times. Just because the child\u2019s first attempt goes wrong the parents don\u2019t underestimate him\/her and confine them to wheelchair forever.<\/p>\n No child will never become depressed or attempt suicide if failure is treated as a first attempt at learning. Anyone who emotionally tortures another human being is the worst criminal. People fail a hundred times before they invent or discover something, some fail dozens of times before they win a game, people failed several times before they succeeded.<\/p>\n Let them fail; he failed the last year of high-school? No problem let him try again, let him learn again because that child may actually be more talented than another but the world won\u2019t see it because they see numbers and not skills. That failure shouldn\u2019t be tagged as \u2018loser\u2019, it shouldn\u2019t require any sympathies as it\u2019s not a tragedy, it\u2019s actually absolutely normal.<\/p>\n Let our education system be based on the fact that it\u2019s okay to fail and that we can try next time because life is all about learning things over, it\u2019s completely alright to fail. One can always try again; humans are bound to make mistakes. Let\u2019s make a difference as the next generation and give students a chance to try and learn again because it\u2019s their first attempt in learning.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.8″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.8″] By Asma Shaikh Feroz Ali As students the only expectation from us is to get good grades and move on to a job without an accident in between. Accident here means failure. 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