Wasted Years

I have come to realize that no year is wasted in the life of any great mind. The years that seem to be wasted to me are not wasted rather they represent the moments of greatest learning. I have heard people say ‘just look at me and how I wasted four or five years in the University studying this or that. I would have used those precious years to learn a thread and shoot my talented career to the apex.’
I have a friend and a course mate in the university who at present works with an electric power generation company. The last time I spoke with him, he was still lamenting after eight years of graduating from the university, of how he hated the Metallurgical and Materials Engineering he studied, as a course. If for no other cause, I know that at least  it is the certificate of the ‘hated course’ that has enabled him to work in such place yet he has continued to lament and tag those years as 'wasted.'

 But are these years really wasted? I am not of that view, I believe they have great lessons of their times to offer, they have helped in molding the person we are, helped in projecting us to the point we know what best to do. You know what? The people that regret do that without compromise and if anyone wastes today regretting yesterday, the risk that he would waste tomorrow regretting today without identifying what he has benefited from the day is there. Failures to me are not failures but the best point to learn and no one should be afraid of them because they make us a better we. Every day brings about its troubles, learning points and lots of goodies as well. It is not wise carrying over yesterdays' when I'm not done with today's troubles. Yesterday is gone, today is here, and tomorrow is next I will keep yesterday and its lessons just beside me; make best use of today's opportunity and prepare for tomorrow while it comes.