If at first you don't succeed, I suggest you don't try skydiving.

Beavers are amazingly determined animals. And also ridiculously clumsy. When a beaver wants to build a dam, he painstakingly cuts down dozens of trees and cuts them up, using only his teeth. Then, he carries each individual log (and there are hundreds) into the river and painstakingly arranges each one to for the perfect underwater palace. Often, the river flow pushes incorrectly placed logs out of place and washes them downstream, resulting in the destruction of the entire dam. But what does the beaver do? He just restarts the entire process again, presumably after saying "Damn" in beaver. (Sorry, couldn't help that one. :P )

Because just sleeping under a tree is too main'stream'.

How many times have you tried something new? Say, solving a Rubik's cube or learning for that chemistry test you have tomorrow?

And how many times have you failed, and then given up? Have you ever twisted that cube half a dozen times and then tossed it across the room? Ever stared blankly at organic chemistry for about fifteen minutes and then said "The hell with this", and promptly proceeding to fall asleep? I have. And I'm sure you have too.

The only person I know that can solve this is a genius colorblind.

But then I learned what happens when you don't give up. A friend taught me. And I'm dedicating this post to him. Arvind Iyer, this one's for you.

Life is full of failures. Last week, I tried to make my brother breakfast. He likes eggs. Sunny-side up. Which I suck at making.

So anyways. I made him breakfast. It was terrible. The yolk split and destroyed the entire egg. I was forced to scramble it. Not that Akash (my brother) minded. He just had an excuse to make me work again. :P Okay, back to the topic. My breakfast making/destroying spree continued for the next three days, and invariably ended with me failing hilariously each time.

Miserably.

And then I remembered something Iyer had told me a long time ago. Three weeks ago, actually.We'd just got our report cards back, and my report card, for perhaps the fifth time in a row, could not exactly have been described as "Up to the mark". he said, "Listen, man. Our life is like a long walk. Every so often you're going to fall on a rock or a branch, or just downright slip. But you can't let that put you off. You've gotta get up, dust yourself off, and keep right on walking."

Okay, he didn't actually SAY it, but his meaning was clear. I mean, who says that kind of stuff out loud  these days anyways?

This one had Iyer written all over it. xD

Anyways. Back to the point, people. Fact is, you're going to fail. And then you'll fail again. And again. And again.

But don't let that get you down. You've just got to get back up like the beaver, dust yourself off, and keep walking. Or building. Or studying. Or whatever it is you were doing. Remember, the only hindrance in your life is you, and what you think you can or cannot achieve.

Iyer said it.

And one does not simply ignore what Iyer said, 'damn' you.

Keep trying, and you'll get there. I hope. :)