What looks like failure can sometimes redirect a life in ways success never would.
In W. Somerset Maugham’s The Verger, Albert Foreman loses the work he knows because he cannot read or write. What follows turns that setback into one of literature’s most memorable ironies.
This short reflects on failure, opportunity, adaptability, and the roads we discover only when the familiar one closes.
What if failure is not simply an ending, but a turning point?
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So true ..😊