Today's loss or tomorrow's gain?

To begin with, I'd like to share a short story that I heard in school.
There were once two frogs who happened to be best of friends. One day, both of them set out for food search. On their way, they saw a jar full of milk. Being both young and adventurous, the duo jumped into the jar, failing to judge its depth beforehand. Soon after quenching their thirst for milk the two thought of getting out. But then, they had just fallen trap to the lure of hunger. They paddled for an hour, made recurring attempts to jump out of the jar but neither of them could get enough of height. Frustrated of the trails, one frog chose to quit his efforts and let life fall apart while the second one still held tight to a ray of hope for survival. The frog who had let it loose soon drowned but his counterpart managed to squeeze out as much effort as he could to paddle. With hours paddling by, the milk thickened and turned into butter. As the floor got solidified,  the lone survivor escaped, leaving behind the reminiscence of his friend soiled somewhere deep in the butter.

Coming to my point, People fail. Yes, they do fail, but not because they flunk; it is rather the lack of a forthseeing vision.
When you are put under peer pressure and the necessity to perform, there are chances that you'd fall short of the target, or in other case, succeed. If you succeed it is fair square but not everybody has his luck accompanying him on the day. But hold on!
You might be thinking the reason why I am hell bent on retracing the lost battles, but I argue that it wasn't the battle that defeated us, but our will to not retry until god gave us the grace.
Had Steve Jobs not incured the first loss of his academic career by dropping out, god knows what would the word be like without his efforts in the field of technology. Not just Jobs, everyone who has achieved success, has a history of failures down the lane.

Talking about my personal experience,  I feel whatever happens,  happens for a good reason. There have been times I have failed, but all that has done is to enrich me of experience and cautions. And nobody knows what life has in store for me. Maybe a mistake I commit today produces a fruitful tomorrow or maybe the other way round. All I want to say is that one should never lament on one's loss, considering it to be the end of the road. There is always something in store.

To wrap up, I quote
" When life pelts stones at you, take it hands down and build a house out of it."

Thank you!
Take care. :)