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Rob Spiegel’s essay “Want to Succeed, Lose a Little” explains two novelists opinion on failure and success. Novelist Ernest Hemingway expresses that “ I write from the authority of success.” On the there hand novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald had a different view on success, Fitzgerald said “I write from the authority of failure.” Fitzgerald response was completely accurate in my case. It was only a few months before my 18th birthday when i found out news that was going to impact my whole life. Before I explain to you this life changing event, let me tell you how my life was going. I was 17 and not succeeding. I almost felt like my life was getting pulled from me little by little, depression was no joke but suddenly became my best friend. My best friend was my worst nightmare it slowly pulled me to hate the people I loved, pulled …show more content…

I left high school, left my dream of basketball, but my best friend continued on my side. I slowly started to tear away from the medication, sounded like a bad idea, but when I flushed the pills, I was able to flush my worst enemy my best friend too. My grades started to pull from F’s and D’s to ABC’s. Success was near I could feel it. Back to a few months before my 18th birthday and a few months into night school. I found out I was 6 months pregnant, the scariest time of my life. It felt as if I walked into the bathroom my best friend would be awaiting me, failure sunk deep in my mind. I was only 17 I knew nothing about money management, barely knew about life. My mother the strongest individual I know told me “ this will be the biggest curve ball thrown at you, but it will take a team to hit it out of the park.” Skipping over the three months I had to prepare with my family, failure was not the case, success was near. Winston Churchill said, “Never, never, never, never give

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