What are wasted opportunities?

From now till O level, I'll just type some essays which I think is good in my blog. (So not considered blogging la hor...haha) Hope by typing them out, I can learn some vocabulary and good phrases and apply them in O! Heex...


What are wasted opportunities?


How often have we heard of someone say that they have wasted an opportunity? There is a mixture of regrets, of wistfulness... in fact, it could be even one of pure frustration. For example, a businessman may have been given a good proposition but did not take up the offer. Later on, he lived to regret it.


What exactly is an opportunity? It is a chance to have or to do something which one thinks would be beneficial to one. For example, a student may be offered scholarships to study overseas. Everyone tells him that it is a good opportunity for him to further his lot in life as an overseas degree is deemed prestigious and augurs well for his future career. However, he may not take it up if his family does not allow him. Then many will say that he had wasted an opportunity.


Opportunities are like this... you have to recognise tham and hope that by seizing them, they will lead to certain desired outcomes.


Opportunities arise as one goes through life, whether at home, in studies or later on at work. Those who are born rich or educated parents have a head start in life. A rich son can enter a better school or an educated parent can give informed advice to his children. It is up to these fortunate people to seize the opportunites presented to them or these would be wasted.


Hence, opportunities present themselves at certain times. The person who does not seize them would have wasted these opportunities. However, one must be ready for the opportunites when they present themselves. A person who has prepared himself by acquiring the right qualifications and work experience would be well equipped to seize the opportunity if the job he desires comes by. He would not let such an opportunity slip away and wasted it.


Therefore, opportunities should be easily taken. There is a saying, 'fortune favours the brave'. After all, there is no harm trying.


Life presents us with opportunites. It is up to us to seize them. Even if they tured out with undesirable outcomes, one would not blame oneself as after all, one would have tried.


What would be sad for one to hear would be about people who bemoan their lack of opportunities or not seizing opportunities which would have led to desirable outcomes. We can only commiserate with the person who says that he should have married that good girl or that he should have pursued that course which would have otherwise led to fortune. But luck is the game of life and if you were to ask every person, he would have his tale of wasted opportunities.


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After reading this essay, I think that we should seize each opportuniy that is presented to us. Even if you failed to achieve the deisred outcomes, the most important thing is that you have tried for you would never know what would have happened unless you do it. After all, the experience which you have gained is invaluable and you did not lose at all because you gain something from it. =)

Many of life's failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up.