Failures are only to make life more exciting!


It was just a couple of years back when I gifted my wife a mobile phone. Since the phone was meant only to contact each other whenever needed, we went for a very basic one. Although it was a basic phone, it had come with a preinstalled video game called ‘snake’. From the day we bought the phone, my son and I used to get hold of it to play the game, till we better ourselves to score more and more points.

One day, when I was engrossed in playing the game, my wife asked me, “why like children you are crazy about this an otherwise very silly game?” To this I explained her that although it’s a silly game, it very much holds lessons for living life better. In an exasperation to what I remarked, she wanted me to elaborate it a bit so that she can understand clearly what I intended to say.

I further explained her that there are different levels to play the game and each level is divided into a set of challenges and difficulties. And, to move on to the next level one has to successfully cross all the barriers of the current level. While playing the game I realised that had there been no challenges or difficulties there would not have been any excitement of getting on to the next level. Similarly, living life without challenges or difficulties would never bring true happiness even if when one gets successful.

The so called silly game was worth playing to understand an otherwise subtle philosophy of life. 

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