Personal Narrative: I Step Up To The Plate I Failure

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Most of the time I step up to the plate, I fail. It is tolerable if I fail; it is human nature. But when I go up to the plate and do everything right, I succeed. All my dedication, practice and determination pays off when I finally succeed and then it feels amazing! All the hard work comes down to finally being able to accomplish something after you’ve failed and failed again. The ability to be able to focus on a goal and accomplish that goal is what you need to succeed at many things in life. During my life, I have failed many times. I am a baseball athlete. I have played baseball since I was four years old. I have gained a lot of knowledge about the sport through the years but I am not perfect. I continue to strike out, miss pop flies

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