Our character is being shaped by our experiences in those wildernesses of life. All those gloomy experiences of defeat have imbibed in us the endurance to face and overcome all kinds of future test in life. Those past painful defeats are good teachers too. It has been said that there are hundreds of lessons man can draw from one single defeat, compared to a single knowledge fetched from hundreds of wins-“I have humbled many opponents”.
Unpleasant defeats are repudiated. It is undesirable even to think off. Nobody wishes to lose in any contests that one has joined. But if we closely look at defeat, and ponder on its hidden wisdom, we will be amazed to find that losing is a divine design of breaking our spirit in order for us to seek and draw courage and strength from a higher unnatural source of inspiration. Defeat always draws us closer to reality. It keeps our feet on the ground and prevents those laurels of successes from infusing toxic fumes inside our heads.
We always have our romantic pas de deux with unforgettable successes in life. We seemed unable to go of them. We have clung so much on them that we superficially enjoy living in our world of make believe. We lost ourselves enough to fantasy and we are constantly moving farther away from the real world. In our sterile world of make believe, we might have thought that we would be around for eternity, we unconsciously strived to live for 100 years or more and temporarily forgot about our impending mortality in this time- bounded existence.
We abuse our body with unhealthy vices, erroneously thinking that we own this body and can transgressed this body without paying for them.
We disrespect nature by destroying our forest thinking that the earth’s resources have existed only for own consumption.
We despise our fellowmen by unjustly treating them and by obsession we thought that we are more powerful than them, that we are materially affluent than them and we possess extraordinary sufficiency that we can live in our sterile world without asking help from our pauper neighbors.
We have clung to these delegated powers long enough while thinking that these powers are absolute and rightfully ours. We thought we are an indispensable creatures and the world will be deprived of its ancient perpetual movement without the fueling by our inherent geniuses.