“Failure is not a single, cataclysmic
event. Failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.”_Jim Rohn
I once read
an article written by the author of ‘Willpower Doesn’t Work,’ on how fatal the
consequences of certain little lapses in life can turn out to be.
Ben Hardy
narrated the sad occurrence that happened in 1979 due to a little error of just
two degrees. An airplane that was well-loaded with people began flying two
degrees off the right coordinates.
Eventually, those
tiny degrees of errors put the plane away from its desired destination by more
than forty-five kilometers apart in the course of its journey.
Worse still,
the unexpected destination was nothing like the sightseeing adventures the passengers
had originally intended as the plane flew straight toward Mount Erebus: the
dangerous zone of active volcanic pulse.
Long story
short: the mere two degrees of errors led to the fatal end of more than 255
lives aboard. A simple oversight started as something trivial but it ended as an
unforgettable tragedy because it was left uncorrected minutes after minutes.
To quote the
words of Ben Hardy from that painful story: “Small things—if not
corrected—become big things, always.”
The above
narrative is a negative analogy human life. Small errors of judgment that
continue uncorrected will accumulate into a big problem, every time.
However, on
the positive side, small wise choices we make every day, if they continue unblemished
will accumulate into something great, without fail.
Now, the
essence of this article is to goad us to examine our lives for any such error
that could give birth to outcomes of lethal consequences down the line.
So let’s
think deeper to ascertain that we have a proper-control system to steer us
toward a desirable destination of health, spirituality and fulfillment at the
end of our brief sojourn on earth.
You should
never be too careless with little lapses in your life. Read the following the words
of Alan S. Kesselheim, the author of ‘Let Them Paddle’ to get this point direct
from his astute observation of human history. He said:
“Small
mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is
passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history brims with tragedies built
out of incremental missteps.”
Finally, we
need to understand that little leaks can sink even the biggest ship. Therefore
let’s be proactive to patch any weak spots that could degenerate into a leak,
and subsequently impair the voyage of our life.
