Persistence Research Paper

As teengers, we are caught in the middle of the free-spirit, liberated days as a child and having to become independent and expected to be an adult. During our years of preparing for such responsibility, we have to learn how to not give up and continue pushing ourselves even when times seem too difficult to handle. An important aspect of reaching success and achieving our goals in life, is persistence. Through all the trials of life, it’s important to strive to obtain the quality of persistence. As I continue to develop as a person and fulfilling my obligations, I never want to look back and find a trail of regrets from not pushing myself to overcome challenges. In my life right now, I can find most of my challenges in school and sports. One main incident that I showed an act of persistence was in my first experience of a state competition.
Last year at the end of 8th grade, I started my summer training for cross country that following year as a freshman. We started practicing as a team about a month before school started, creating a strong bond between each other as teammates. We all wanted each other to do their best and run for each

I ended up looking forward to running with my team and competing together at our meets. Throughout the season, our girls team actually won most of our meets, and only losing to bigger schools when we weren’t in first. As the season was leading up to the state cross country meet, our coach told us that we had a high chance of taking first place. The week leading up to our final meet, our coach gave us several inspirational speeches, helping us find the courage to give our all in our final race of the season. The day before the meet, a few of us drove up to where the meet was to take place, and we walked the course in order to become more familiar with what we were to be racing the next