CA final result has been declared today. I received news of many negative results of my friends and others. I didn’t have surprise on many of them. But when I received result of my sister, I was a little surprised. She cleared her first group but could not clear only one paper of second group. I was surprised because I know that she is brilliant from her school days. She had done very well in PE-I and PE-II and her preparation was also very good in final.
I am not writing this to give any consolation or to analyze her result. But I am writing this to share my views on success and failure. Today, we have made these words very specific. If someone is able to clear examination, he/she is successful and if he/she can’t, she is a failure. This is what our definition is. Actually there is a fundamental mistake in this definition. We forget that those who have failed today have the strength to fight again and they can convert their failure in to success.
We need to understand some basic facts regarding CA examination. We must understand that it is a professional examination and emotions do not work here. Professional examinations can be handled professionally only. The big question is how can we PROFESSIONALLY handle an exam? The simple answer is that we must have a professional strategy for preparation of CA final exam. We have to prepare strategy for each subject.
The fundamental thing is, we should realize that mere clearing an examination is not our sole goal. If we are not logically clear, degree doesn’t work. First of all we should prepare each subject by going to its roots. We should keep in our mind that there is no short cut in CA. We can’t get success or at least a big success by short cuts. In short runs they may work but in long run they will demand replies from us. So my dear friends, whatever you do, please do it by giving your heart to it. If we can give our heart to what we are doing, we will always be satisfied with whatever we are doing. Don’t do anything just for the shake of doing. We should live for our goals. That is the greatest enjoyment of life.
I define success like this- “If we can enjoy what we are doing, we are successful. If we can’t, it is our failure”
I don’t know whether this definition is correct or not in your eyes, but I live by this definition. I firmly believe that our success or failure can’t be decided by one piece of paper. There is nothing called FINAL in life. We can always change the realities if we give our heart to what we are doing. For this purpose it is absolutely essential to decide what we enjoy the most. We have to decide our direction first. But sometimes we concentrate on speed only and we forget the direction. At last we realize that “Oh, this is not the place where I wanted to come.”
Professional degree or money can never be the final goal. We must set goal to be excellent in whatever we are doing. Yes of course, it is difficult, but who wants to do simple things? We have only one life and we can’t afford to waste it in doing simple things. We must accept challenges. In fact, we must love to accept challenges. We can create a strong society if we can teach students to accept challenges.
Lastly, I wish to add that life is a continuous race. We have to run till end. And we are strong enough to accept the challenge of wining this race. Let’s enjoy this race.
