Failing is not the end

LET me comment on Glen Burua’s statement in one of the dailies about living within limits and not to living a life beyond what one can achieve with one’s capabilities and abilities.
He states that if a student scores below average in physics, for example, he should not think of going to university but apply to a college instead as he or she will not be able to secure a space in university.
Success comes to those who turn their failures into real successes.
Let me point to one of the greatest neurosurgeons, Dr Ben Carson, as an example.
According to his books, Dr Carson was once the dumbest kid in school, from first to fifth grade.
Students used to refer to him as the dumbest kid who could not even score a point in a test – until his mother introduced him to reading and he became one of the world’s top neurosurgeons.
I also heard stories about one of Papua New Guinea’s professors in mathematics, Samuel Kapamo, who is now teaching at Pacific Adventist University.
Kapamo was once a grade 10 dropout but he was able to make his way up the ladder to become PNG’s mathematics guru.
Successful people are those who have the mental capacity to show resilience in a world full of hopelessness and failures.

Lam
Pom