#365DaysOfWriting – Day Ninety-Four

“Why do we fall, Bruce? So we can learn to pick ourselves up.”

Two simple lines of dialogue from Batman Begins. But powerful. A lot of lessons to be learnt here.

1. Failure doesn’t make you weak. It only makes you stronger.
2. Even a human seemingly at the peak of his physical and mental prowess, Bruce Wayne, is prone to failure. We aren’t Bruce Wayne – we’re ALLOWED to fail.
3. If you pick yourself up after a failure and continue, you’re not a failure any more. You’ve already succeeded – half the battle is won.
4. There will be detractors. Naysayers. They’re the worst kind of Dementors. Use your Patronus charm – EXPECTO IGNORUM. Do your thing.
5. Be the hero of your own life. Don’t wait for a Batman to save you. Pssssst… he isn’t real. You are.

A real-life example is being played out in a test match in the West Indies.

Remember yesterday, when I said that India were in trouble at 113/4? Well, that soon became 126/5. They had fallen from grace after being virtually indestructible for the first 9 days of this series. West Indies were going for the kill.

Ashwin and Saha combined, (both ‘Batmen’) dug deep, and took India out of a hole. The score at lunch on Day 2 is 316/5. Ashwin on 99, Saha on 93.

So it’s proven – why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up. Ashwin and Saha did. And they were their own Batmen.

If you like what I’ve written, tap the little green heart at the bottom – it’ll pick me up for sure!