bhaskar saikia

In this world obsessed with success, winners are always celebrated, embraced, and nurtured. They are the “adopted children” of society—welcomed with open arms, showered with praise, and given every opportunity to flourish. Their stories are retold, their names remembered. They are proof that the system works, that hard work pays off, that dreams do come true.

But what about the failures—the ones who tried and stumbled? The ones whose dreams didn’t take shape the way they hoped? They are the abandoned orphans of the same world that glorifies the successful. No one wants to claim them. Their stories are forgotten before they’re even finished.

Yet, failure is not the absence of worth—it’s often the silent seed from which true understanding grows. The irony is that every winner once stood in the shadows of failure. The difference is not in falling, but in how one rises after falling. But society rarely stays to see that part of the story. It adopts success, not struggle.

This mindset runs deep—in schools, workplaces, even relationships. When you succeed, you’re applauded. When you fail, you’re judged. But perhaps failure only feels like abandonment because we’ve forgotten that it, too, needs care. Every failure needs someone—maybe just ourselves—to hold it close, to learn from it, and to help it grow into something new.

Because, in truth, both winners and failures are born from the same place: effort. The winner’s victory is simply the orphaned failure that someone chose not to abandon.