One’s initial feeling of disappointment should quickly transform itself into a greater determination to try harder, to alter one’s approach, to seek different and better ways of achieving one’s goal, and to channel one’s energies more effectively towards their ultimate target.
If there is hate and anger directed against one, one must not let such feelings get under one’s skin instead one should try to feel forgiveness in one’s heart of hearts. Even if the whole world wishes one evil, one should still have only good feelings for others. There is no other way of succeeding in life. If one adopts the same feelings as prevail in one’s outside environment, the challenges of life are sure to be more than one can bear.
Maturity is the ability to live in peace with things we cannot change
The great secret of life is realism, and there is no form of realism greater than accepting defeat. To do so is to acknowledge the fact that, far from being ahead of others, one is behind them. In other words, it is to know where one stands in life. Once defeat is accepted, one is immediately in a position to start life’s journey afresh, for such a journey can only commence from where one actually is; it cannot start from a point that one has not yet reached.
