Life Lessons From JK Rowling

She writes, therefore she is. J.K Rowling was very much convinced, rather early in life than she can do only one thing in life: write novels. And possibly her over active imagination apparently amplified her confidence level. However, she had an Achilles heels in the form of her parents who believed that her unusual personal quirk would land her in troubled waters. Explaining things to them for Rowling was like casting pearls before swine's for neither of them had gone to school.

However, she states there is an expiry date when it comes to blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction, because the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you. Eventually it is for us to decide what constitutes failure, for the world would happily go the extra mile to give you a set of yardsticks if you let in. In her case it is said that she failed on an epic scale. An exceptionally short-lived marriage, was jobless and a lone parent, once upon a time.

One may think, why speak about Rowling's failure in details, when this woman has gone on to capture the imagination of the young and the old alike, through her mind-boggling books? Simply, because failure is the stepping stone to success, failure gave Rowling all the energy to finish the only work that mattered to her the most, i.e. living her imagination through her Harry Porter series.

She once remarked 'You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all- in which case, you fail by default".

In fact she says, failure filled her with a sense of inner security which she could have never attained by passing any examinations. Through failure she discovered her strong will and determination power. Failures help us emerge wiser and stronger. Moreover, the best time to judge yourself and can even judge the strength of your relationship is when you are struck by a hardship.

To sum it up, life is not all about your CV, your qualifications, though there are many people who give too much of importance to all these. Indeed, life is complicated and beyond anyone's control and the realization of it will help endure its vicissitudes.