There are two ways we can tag failure in our life. First: “I’m a failure!” Second: “I failed at something!”

When we say, “I am a failure,” it indicates: “I’m the reason of this … it’s all because of me.” But when we say, “I failed at something,” it indicates: “It’s not me … it’s my action that fails. It’s not me!”

We all have failed many times although we mayn’t remember. We fell down the first time we tried to walk or ride a bi-cycle. We almost drowned when the first time we tried to swim, didn’t you?

Just think, did you hit a sixer the first time you swung the cricket bat? Forget about yourself, think about the following cricket greats.

Sachin Tendulkar, the one who has scored the maximum number of centuries and the highest run getter in one-day-international, has failed to score his maiden ODI century for the first five years of his career. It was his 79th one-day-international when he finally succeed to score his maiden ODI ton.

Saeed Anwer, the highest individual scorer in the one-day-international (194), couldn’t open his score sheet and was out for duck in the first four innings of his test career.

Mathew Hayden, the second highest individual scorer in the test cricket, was ousted from the selection of under-21 Australian cricket team and in the first five years of his career, got the chance to play only seven test matches.

Sanat Jayasuyra, the only cricketer to score over 12,000 ODI runs after Tendulkar, in the first 80 matches of his career, had the batting average just below eight.

Sourav Ganguly, the third highest run getter in the one-day-international and the most successful Indian captain, was dropped from the team after playing his first ODI. After four long years of waiting, he was selected again and got the change to play his second One Day International.

Naah, we are not failure; we failed at something. So don’t worry about the failure. Worry about the chances you miss, when you don’t even try. Remember, there is only one angle; everyone should look through—that’s TRYangle.