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A Moment Of Ephany: A Graduation Analysis

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Have you ever experienced a moment of epiphany? A moment where you basically understood something, but for once you see it in a different light. That has happened to me before in eighth grade. It was almost the last few weeks of school of the year and the whole student body was having a rough time with school. With the smell of spring in the air and the realization that summer was right around the corner, I don’t know who would not struggle to keep their head in the game. Like the rest of the crowd, I stopped turning in my homework in social studies. I had never gotten an F in a class before, so when I checked my grades that night I had a panic attack. I guess I knew if I didn’t turn in my homework, I might flunk, but that had never happened …show more content…

By the end of the year and I was a lazy, not caring mess. I’m not proud to admit that I had a sulky attitude towards school in eighth grade and stopped doing my homework in my class. At least I was able to learn from my mistakes, because for me, school isn’t easy. I don’t think I will ever forget the lesson I learned that year being that a wave of impact to my grade and myself.
The consequences besides the fact that I felt an abundance of shame, I was grounded until I brought my grade up, I wasn’t able to participate in the talent show, and I bothered my teacher almost every morning about getting my grade up. I was completely humiliated, but all of this helped me accept that I had failed due to my vice of sloth. My a-ha moment was when I realized that if I want anything in life, I had to work for it. Not everything in life can be free and taking everything for granted I now know will not propel me as far as I want to go in life. I know that some objectives in life are more difficult than others, but when facing them, I have to give all I got. Since I realized that, I have been taking events in life seriously. It has been a rewarding lesson in my life. As a bonus, I realized it doesn’t hurt to try and fix my mistakes. I raised my grade to a C and finished the year with a B-. Shedding light on this particular subject that I had to work with gave me motivation conquer certain obstacles in my way. This was by far not a comfortable

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