Pressure Of Failure

Rupesh was the brightest student of his class. Remembering him, his teachers say that whenever they asked any question in the class, he would be the first child to answer it. There was no question in his books which he could not answer. Whether it be mathematics, science or social science, he was the best. He did not know what the second position was. His was the top position in all the examinations.

His father, Kishori Lal, felt proud of his son and spent a lot of money for his education.

In time, Rupesh came out of his college with a brilliant record, and soon got a top class job in a multi-national American company. He had to leave India and settle down in America. He was very happy there with his new lifestyle, which was completely different from that of his own country. Here they were dependent on machines. They trusted animals like cats and dogs, pythons, but not humans. Rupesh also gradually got coloured in the culture of that country that was actually not his own. For some years, he occasionally came to India to meet his parents, but gradually got busy in his work and stopped coming to India. Now he communicated with his parents only through letters.

Kishori Lal wanted to marry his son to a beautiful Indian girl. His wife and he had also liked a girl for him, but before they could inform him about their wish, one day they learnt through a letter that he had married with his colleague, and wished to come to India in order to seek their blessings. In some days, he came home with his American bride and stayed there for a whole week. After that, they never came to India again. Kishori Lal also was never heard speaking about him. What a turn the time had taken ! The father that once was so proud of his son's progress now did not like to take even his name.

Rupesh's life was going very well in America. He got promotion after promotion and earned a lot of money. But suddenly everything changed. The company that was earning huge amounts of profits, now was running in loss and in a few days was declared bankrupt. Everybody lost their job. Rupesh too became helpless.He failed to bear the pressure. Of course, he was brilliant, but he had only bookish knowledge, which is not always useful. He didn't know how to tackle failure and make his way through the devastating waves of the troubled sea. In school, he scored marks, that were just some numbers, not the wealth of experience. He always tasted success, and only knew success. He had never failed, and so he could not learn how to manage the pressure of failure.

Scoring cent percent marks is not important in life . What's important is to learn how to tackle the pressure of failure. Here Rupesh failed. He got mad and spent the rest of his life in a lunatic asylum.