Some time back, I flew into the realm of my infinite childhood memories. I could see myriads of doors of memoirs waiting to get unlatched. After passing by many, I stumbled across a very peculiar one. It wasn’t something very significant but still caught my attention. 

Then came the Big Day! We all could sense the excitement in the very air, the commotion, applause and whistling of the crowd boosted our confidence but gave us the chills too. Everything seemed in order, all set for the race we lined up on the track, however, what followed  was a ground shaking experience for us. Alas! We had lost the race. It felt nearly impossible after all those demanding practice sessions! Many years hence, in hindsight, I can say our past does hold the key to our future. Well, it’s easy to misinterpret this simple statement, allow me to elaborate, our past experiences, however trivial they may be, do have the potential to teach us basic but important lessons in life. In this case,

However prepared we may think we are, we must acknowledge the chances of our failure, not because we aren’t worthy, but because situation might not be in our favour.