Failure.

Failure. The one word that scares me. Failure makes me feel worthless, powerless, utterly useless. But I try to brace myself before it strikes. If I have even the slightest doubt in my mind, that failure is in store, I gear up to face the music. If it hits me out of nowhere, and if I'm not prepared, it's harder to find the pieces when you can't anticipate where to look for them. Because failure is an assurance that I will break. Permanently or temporarily depends on it's intensity of course, but being shattered hurts nonetheless. Once the storm passes, I try to glue myself back together, this time trying to build a stronger foundation. So that if and when failure strikes next time, it will be much harder to take me down. Failure teaches me how to build my walls of success. And once I've learnt the best possible way to do so, once I've built the strongest wall, failure gives up, as it just can't take down success. So failure, although painful, helps me become as successful as I can. No pain, no gain, right?