No defeat is final until you stop trying

     C.S. Lewis, the writer of books like Chronicles of Narnia, was rejected around 800 times before he successfully sold any of his writings... 800 times!!! All those 800 failures would have become defeats had he stopped trying. But he never stopped. He persisted, and now those 800 failures have become legendary like the writer himself.
     How many of us are as persisting as C.S. Lewis? All of us have heard the story of King Bruce and the spider as a child. The same theory of persistence applies there too. But how many of us have applied that theory in our lives?
     Most of us give up goals in life just because we cannot achieve them at one shot. But that is not how it should be. We can learn a lot even from a football match. The goal of football players is literally the goal! But they don't give up after shooting just once. They keep on running, kicking and shooting until the very last second. And there have been many last second goals that have resulted in victories. This is how life should be. You should never stop trying. There will be failures, but none of them will be defeats if you keep persisting.
     Personally speaking, I want to be a writer. And C.S. Lewis is my inspiration. And I know I won’t be defeated, because I will keep trying till the very end…