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Every year, lakhs of candidates aspire to crack one of the toughest exams, UPSC CSE, but only a few of them are able to crack the Civil Services Exam. The journey of preparation for this exam is a challenge in itself. Sometimes, candidates spend years to crack this exam but fail to achieve their goal. Today we are going to tell you about a 26-year-old UPSC candidate, who, while sharing his views on a website, told how we have not been taught to handle failure.
The candidate told that after leaving the job in the year 2021, he had decided to do something for the society by passing the UPSC CSE exam. However, he failed to qualify the exam. Later, he joined an NGO and decided to give the Common Admission Test (CAT), but was not able to score a good percentile there too.
He said, “I had failed, more than failing in the exam, I failed in my own eyes. When you fail in UPSC, you don't fail only on the result day, you fail every day.
The candidate further said, after failing at almost every step, I realized one thing that, failing is much more common than being successful and it is so unfortunate that till now no one teaches us what to do when you fail. If we go, then how should we handle that situation? From pre-school till today, we have been told only to do our best. My question is why? If I had been taught that failure was a normal thing, I might not have been mentally disturbed.
He said, when I have children I will teach them to be happy. I will teach them that your career is a small part of your life, not your whole life. I will teach them to be happy and be a good person with or without money, because now I know that success and failure will come and go in life, but happiness should always remain.
