Value of Failing

Why we must have this rain? Why is it that we must fail? I would rather put it in another way - Why must we have these failing experiences? In order to illustrate this, it would be better for me to give a couple of examples.
Have you ever seen a diamond in its raw state? I am very sure if today we had a couple of these uncut diamonds in front of us, many of us would not be able to recognise them. They just look like ordinary rough stones. Now how is it that this rough stone can be made to be that lovely diamond that every woman loves? By polishing! Yes, the rough diamond is polished and rubbed with a lot of friction! It undergoes a tremendous amount of friction before it finally becomes diamond that you see in the showcase. It must undergo all that polishing for that 'diamond' to come out. It's the same with all of us. We need to be polished, going through hard times, suffering times, before the greatness in us is revealed.
If we look out into the sky at night, we will realise that the DARKER the sky, the BRIGHTER are the stars! Why is it that we can't see the stars in the day time? Not that they are not there. It's because there's too much sunshine! We need darkness to bring out the stars!
How is perfume derived from flowers? The flowers have to be crushed first before we can actually get the perfume from it. You see, it is this process of crushing, these failing experiences that will bring out the best in us.
At this point, I would like to share an interesting finding with all of you. Why does a pilot have to go through years of training when once a plane is on auto-pilot? He practically doesn't need to do anything? The answer was given by the Chairman of Boeing Inc. The pilot spent years in their training to learn about what to do WHEN THINGS GO WRONG!
There you are. Life is not about running away from mistakes or giving up when we fail. It is about learning how to handle them to finally reach our goals.
Some people when they fail they stay in it. Some people when they fail they learn from it and they keep going.

*Remember, in order to have the rainbow you must have the rain. There is no other way. Hard times should make you BETTER and not BITTER. You can only be BETTER if you learn from it.
*We often discover what we will do, by finding out we will not do. And probably he/she who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

-Nazz