Hope…so small a word, yet so strong
Harry PotterJ.K. RowlingA
Rowling and her daughter moved to be near her sister in Edinburgh, Scotland. During this period Rowling was diagnosed with clinical depression, and contemplated suicide. It was the feeling of her illness which brought her the idea of Dementors, soul-sucking creatures introduced in the third book.[ After her daughter Jessica's birth and the separation from her husband, Rowling had left her teaching job in Portugal to spend time with her family. Seven years after graduating from university, Rowling saw herself as the biggest failure she knew. Her marriage had failed, she was jobless with a dependent child, but she described her failure as liberating:
“Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything than what I was, and began to direct all my energy to finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one area where I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter, and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. There’s no point in just worrying about the past and ruining up my entire future to death just because this separation, which was truly a misfortunate event happened”-- J. K. Rowling, Harvard.
! “It is impossible to live without failing at something; failure is the foundation stone of success”. Real challenge lies in keeping your attitude and actions positive when a big crises strikes. Every problem throws open an array of opportunities which you need to try and explore. Never lose Moral
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