Mumbai: Nobody wants to fail but everyone, someday or the other, has to be prepared for it, be it a student in an exam or me in the context of a film or Sonia and Rahul with regard to their party. It is something that applies to every one of us at different stages of our lives. No one is exempted. It is simply a reality of being human. It is also a label that we fight desperately to avoid. And it is not easy to accept responsibility when failure does occur.
When someone fails, there could be a variety of reasons behind it, but no one wants to listen to them. On the contrary, people will indulge in a perverse glee upon seeing the expressions on the faces of those who failed. Especially when it is somebody famous. Having said that, people rarely admit their mistakes and in my opinion they should not.
Yes, we have all heard that accepting failure takes strength of character, honesty and humility, but in reality, we genuinely also might believe that we are not at fault in spite of everyone thinking otherwise. For me, the irony is not when I see a Rahul or a Sonia accepting responsibility for the failure of their party, but it is when they are congratulating the winner Modi. How can they congratulate a man who they have condemned day in and day out and warned the nation of how evil and dangerous he is?
The future of the country is not a game that failure should be taken sportingly. If failed political leaders want to be really genuine, instead of congratulating the winners they should offer condolences to the voters for making their opponents win. If I were Sonia, I would have addressed the nation saying, “It’s okay that you made us fail. Now just wait and watch how badly Modi is going to screw the country. I will change my name if all of you don’t come crawling back to us by the next election.”
That’s who I will call a great loser.
