Was it worth it?

This is question that everyone who knows me might ask these days.
It’s been few days; someone asked me “Was it worth it”? – I smiled with no reply.

That particular question was making too much noise into my head. I asked myself again and again – “Was it worth it”? – Was it worth trying for something that means everything to you but nothing to world? – Was it worth putting so much effort into something that has given you nothing in return? – Was it worth keeping yourself away from everything that you love? – Was it worth putting all your efforts towards your goal and failing in the end?

I believe answers to these questions might decide altitude for not only me but also for everyone around me.

Finally I got my answer, answer from my inner voice, answer from my heart, answer from my failure, answer from my pain, answer from the fall on the ground, answer from my helpless feeling, answer from my hope, answer from my strengths, answer from my courage, answer from the question itself , simple answer –

“Was it not worth it”? Was it not worth learning from that one failure that has taught me more than my any success?

As we see in sports, all players put their everything to win, win for their fans, win for their countries, win for their loved once, win for their lives, and win for their dreams. What happens at the end of the game – best team wins and other loose? So for loosing team was it not worth trying for that win, was it not worth practicing for that win, and was it not worth putting all efforts for that win.

Answer to these questions is a dialogue from the movie, based on a true story – “We are Marshall”, which made me cry. I watched that movie many times again and again to listen to a motivational speech from the coach to his team –

“One day, not today, not tomorrow, not this season, probably not the next season either but one day, you and I are gonna wake up and suddenly we're gonna be like every other team in every other sport where winning is everything and nothing else matters. And when that day comes, well that’s, that’s when we'll honor them. ”

Was it not worth it? Was it not worth it listing to that dialogue again and again that has become a part of my post now, the dialogue that has answered the questions for me?

I think few successful people have better answered these questions than I have:

“The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.” – Lloyd Jones

“If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.” – Woody Allen

Few of my friends asked me again, “What if you fail again?” I just smiled as said myself – “ One day, not today, not tomorrow, not this year, probably not the next year either but one day, my success will define the rule for me.”

“Was it not worth it?”