Failure. No one wants to talk about failure. It’s the nasty blemish people hide under excuses and funny anecdotes. Although usually seen as a hindrance, failure helps shape character and deliver wisdom from the experience it provides. While undesirable, helps build an armor and teaches its victims to fight like knights for the cause they believe in. When I was a junior in high school, I had a personal experience with failure that shaped the way I approached life and helped me mature and grow. Though it was hard, and I still am feeling the shock waves of consequences, I’m glad to be stronger and wiser through my faults. In the words of John F. Kennedy, “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” I dared to fail and have achieved …show more content…
In my junior year, I failed to commit the required time and effort to achieve greatly and succeed in a few of my classes, not because I was incapable, but because I lacked drive and had become despondent from my shortage of social interaction and solitude. Once a week, I went to a home-school for sciences (chemistry and physics) and was excelling and enjoying learning and laughing. Socializing once a week outside my immediate family was not enough, I began turning in my work late, lacking the incentive to submit papers punctually. At the end of every semester, I would push myself to bring my grades up, overworking and exhausting myself in three weeks what I could’ve done in nine. My ability to realize my mistakes and correct them shows my character. I am a student, life-learner, and have a strong desire to understand the world I live in and try to make it better however I am able. I devote the rightful amount of time to my studies and actively try to grasp the concepts presented to me, not just pass classes or tests. I want to reach for the stars and explore new places, both in the physical and mental realm. I am curious, passionately curious, and am proud of my ability to learn from my
On top of that, I learned a valuable lesson from the failure and the loss as well. From that day forth, the past experiences transformed me to be a hard-working and responsible person. Furthermore, I acknowledged that when something bad happens, it can prepare us for the future obstacles, so let always be optimistic and never give up on trying.
During my first semester of my freshman year, I was the quiet, shy girl that just kept to herself and was focused on school. I always wanted to fit in with everyone but it just wasn't working out. So I became friends with some girls and started ditching school, and skipping classes. My grades were dropping throughout my second semester, and I knew what I was getting myself into. I turned into a girl who did not care about school and class work anymore. School just wasn't “for me.” At the end of the year I failed about 4 of my classes.
Failure leads to disappointments but sometimes it can result in great lessons and successes. People can go through hard times, but if they stick it out and see it through, the failures and hard times can lead to success. This happened to me recently involving soccer. It was our second game of the high school season, and we were playing Northeastern. I had started the game and after the national anthem and the announcing of our names, the game whistle had blown, singling the start of the game. The first half went by slow it seemed to never end. With the end of the first half we were tied 0-0. The halftime talk was not very positive, understandably, considering we weren't playing well. Then the whistles blew again and we took the field to start
I’ve pushed myself to pursue rigorous classes throughout high school. Though I didn’t make the grade I always wanted, I never lost hope and ensured that I gave my best effort and tried my hardest at all times. This hard work has paid off tremendously. I was able to complete my dyslexia curriculum by 8th grade. I was accepted into a magnet center for high school, which is one of the best in the state and is ranked well in the nation among high schools. I believe that my life, my education, my learning disability, and etc are all subject to my belief that my mindset is greater than my circumstances, and working hard paid off greatly. My situation as a dyslexic has taught me to pride myself in my ability to overcome any
My biggest accomplishment throughout high school so far has been learning how to fail. Not necessarily falling flat on my face in a viral video, but instead just barely coming up short and not being able to reach a goal, despite my best efforts. Although I was unaware of it at the time, failing my driver’s test on my first attempt would become a life altering incident.
Lessons can be learned from the littlest of experiences. Important life lessons can be taken from not only success, but also our greatest failures. Adversity can greatly alter our perspective and provide an individual with wisdom. The first time I was faced with adversity was when I broke my tibia and fibula. I was involved in sports and this was definitely a setback, to say the least. Moments after the accident, I realized that the months of recovery I would have to toil. I realized these future and upcoming months would require patience and I would undergo great amounts of drudgery.
I was given a chance to study art at Harrison and I could not be any happier to officially pursue what I love. Having been shy throughout middle school, I saw high school as an opportunity for me to do a one-eighty with my life, to start with a clean slate. By pushing myself to be more open, I quickly made friends and felt like I belonged. Of course this was only the tip of the iceberg; I was not ready for the events that would ensue. Drama would brew amongst “friends” and school work gradually became more difficult. As the years progressed I began to notice a sense of competition amongst my peers and I, which sometimes led me to doubt my own abilities. It was also amidst the stress and anxiety that I discovered my biggest habit and flaw: procrastination. The procrastination cycle is ruthless; I found myself staying up late and losing to do virtually every assignment up until now, senior
This quote relates a bad hop that a ground ball takes in baseball to obstacles in my life as well as relating great plays to overcoming those obstacles. This brings me to my laws of life which are how to deal with failure and how to make the best of a bad situation put before you.
Throughout my life, I have faced many setbacks, challenges, and have failed more times than I can count. Though each one has impacted me in a different way, this one in particular, has had the greatest effect on me.
The struggle of getting up every morning early to get an education because being a drop out will not get myself very far in life and will not please that expensive taste of mine. Attending school tired and sometimes with no sleep. Having problems going on at home and being sick sometimes can make it so challenging but the ambition for success and making something out of one self is so real. Being raised in a family where failure is not an option has helped me be the young lady I am today who is full of significant responsibilities ambitions and dreams of making it big. Living the dream and making all the times I have woken up early and worked my bottom off worth it.
A time when I experiences failure is when I made the B team for volleyball. From not making the A team I learn a lot of lessons. I knew that if I wanted to be on the A team then I was going to the have to push myself to improve. I knew that just because I didn’t make the team that I wanted to I shouldn’t give up and quit. I also knew that because I didn’t make the team that I want I couldn’t take it out on other people. I had to show good character and prove that I wasn’t taking it out on anyone else. I also knew that I could set long term and short term goals to reach to become better.
Everyone in life experiences failure. It can affect people positively or negatively and that all depends on how they react to the experience. If one lets their failure overcome their dreams, it will lead them in the wrong path. But if one views their failures as a motive to succeed and grow, then they are on their way to becoming successful. For me, I let my failures in life help build onto my character and define the person I am today. My childhood injury is my example as I let this moment affect the outcome of my dreams I had then.
It was a cold, dark morning when the phone rang. It was boisterously loud and the clock read six o'clock. The deafening noise jolted us again, and there was only one way to make it stop. Chris picked up the phone and in a tired, drowsy voice, answered, "Hello."
Have you ever been beaten down by your own confidence? It is supposed to help you succeed, but instead, it once made me blinded from the fact that I am not perfect. There is always a chance of failure if I don’t try my best. In fact, I did fail getting into my dream high school.
Living up to my resolution, I joined several clubs, both in and out of school and academic and recreational. I also met some of my very best friends in high school. Achieving all of this, friends, memberships to academic clubs and good grades, made up my first successful experience in high school. I was driven by the years in middle school and the promise that I made to myself at the end of eighth grade. Throughout my under classmen years I exceled in all subjects and thoroughly enjoyed the clubs I had joined. I think my downfall for the last two years of school was that I took for granted my good grades and as my classes got more rigorous I didn’t change the way I learned the material, but continued on the same path that I had been following my entire academic career, even when my grades were slipping slightly. Halfway through my senior year, I realized I needed to change the way I was learning the curriculum my instructors were teaching. I’ve always been the type of student to take good notes or listen to a lecture and understand everything the first time around, as was the case in elementary school and middle school. But my more rigorous classes proved to be a challenge for me and I did not know the proper way of learning the material on my own. I started by asking more questions in class and then going to my friends for help on subjects I didn’t understand. After many questions and after school tutor