Thin line between Success and Failure.

wow... can't believe I am posting after three to four months... December just seems to have passed... and I am already in Spring.

sigh sigh :( long gone are the holidays.....

Well, I really wanted this one to be the third in the line. Why? is a difficult question, even I have no answer to it, but had thought of writing this post as my third one.

Very recently I experienced there's a thin line between success and failure, just that little difference or a margin. I am taking some exams and I happen to clear the first one on the edge; managed to score just enough marks to clear it. I was a very happy person then , it was the first paper in the series of four and " I HAD CLEARED IT". The journey towards reaching my first mile stone wasn't easy 'et-al', but just like my past record (mind you I am very enthusiastic when it comes to studies ;)), I started being lethargic and did not study for a long time.

Then after a series of arguments with my better half I started studying again. aah !!! what a relief it was for him. The days of slogging and toiling day and night were back again. :(

After some hard work I took the exam, and was awaiting the results, and to my hardest of the lucks (?) [ I should have studied in time and put in more efforts] I did not clear the paper and that too, for just ONE MARK, yeah one mark. Suddenly, it occurred to me, there's a huge difference between success and failure, its just that finishing line, which you need to touch in order to qualify.

Now I realised what it is to loose a championship for a tenth of a second. That tenth of a second, that one mark, that touch down has to happen. Even if you are up close and near, you are not a winner, its not a success, you fall "this" short of success and that's the bitter taste of failure.
The feeling of "you could have.... , and but its lost now.... " is worst than swallowing a bitter pill.

Well, undoubtedly, I got a huge support from my friends, family and husband, which is why I re-appeared in a months' time and here I am successful with flying colors this time.

but damn.... it was bad to fail for a mark !!!!