Today, I write to encourage each person not to dare give up regardless of the number of times you fail. I know that failure exposes one's limitations and incapacities-it sends home the message that we are not good and it is often demoralising, it can cause seclusion and bitterness. But it can also reveal your weaknesses so that you can build up on them and become even stronger. Recently, I have been sourcing the web in a bid to find a supervisor who could lead/coach me on with my academic pursuit, but got several responses which reveal that my research idea is fantastic, but the academicians have limited expertise in the subject area. Letter upon letter, I was told that the research area is "super exciting", "interesting", "a wonderful project", but they could not offer their knowledge on the subject as they have different topic expertise even though my research appears to resonate with their area of interest. I have been bitter about it because deep i...