Failure is one of life’s greatest teachers, all of my failures in life big or small have given me the best lessons life can give. One of my biggest failures in life was letting a bully get under my skin. I let a boy, who was supposed to be my friend, ruin the way I thought of myself and cloud the reality of people who truly loved me. I am not proud of the things I let slide by in this so called friendship. I took verbal and physical abuse constantly because I thought it was what I deserved. When I tried to talk to my friends about it, and they would say, “That’s him just messing around.” They thought it was the same jokes he pulled with them. I thought it was me who was wrong. While this is a time of weakness that I’m not proud of. I am proud …show more content…
My parents explained no matter how hard his words hurt he should never know it got to me. They told me to make the emotions and reactions that his words or actions conjured up inside of me to go straight into this metaphorical suitcase that I bring and unpack at home to them. Let all the emotions of anger and sadness out where I am safe from more harm. When I applied this lesson to movie night when I was around him, it wasn’t as fun for him to make fun of me. He got so frustrated that his words had no effect on me, he resorted to physical harm instead. He threw a half full water bottle at my head as hard as he could. The room full of freshman teen boys and girls went silent waiting for my reaction. Remembering what my parents said of don’t let him know he got under my skin, I took a deep breath, I picked up the water bottle, I turned to the stairs, I walked upstairs, I threw the water bottle away, and I came back down and continued my conversation. My friends minus him started clapping for me. In that moment I realized the way he’d been treating me didn’t go unnoticed by my friends they just didn’t know how to help.
That taught one of the best lessons learned from this experience. Everyone who is in high school is trying to figure out who they are and where they fit in life. We all figure it out in different ways. High school is temporary and being a teenager is hard and in times of struggle at the hands of a classmate, it is important to remember they’re trying to figure themselves out as well. While it may not be fair my guy friend chose me to learn about himself and I learned things about myself as
We have all encountered some degree of failure in our lives, some worse than others. No one is or ever will be a perfect human being. Failure is certain in our lives among all questionable events. Times of failures are events we can learn from even in the smallest ways. Whether it be a failing grade, not making a sports team, or not winning a game, there is always a lesson to be learned.
Failure Failure has always been a part of my life. As a child, I fell short of minor goals such as riding a bicycle, doing a pull-up, or beating a difficult level on Super Mario Bros. Although these set backs were small, I constantly kepy trying untill I could accomplish the task at hand. In fact, I would say one of my most euphoric moments in my child hood was when I learned how to ride a bike. As I got older, failure got tougher.
Throughout my short, young live I haven’t had much experience with life-changing obstacles or events. In addition, overcoming an obstacle depends on what qualifies as an obstacle in your eyes. Since, we all have different opinions about what an obstacle is, I believe it all comes down to how personal the challenge is to you and how serious you are to overcome it. Therefore, my personal demon I had to defeat was as simple as stop drinking coffee.
Experiencing failure might feel like the biggest setback to some people. I know sometimes struggle to pick myself back up. However, it can be necessary to achieving success. With failure, it is easy to realize what you
I’m laying on the ground my ears are ringing as I slowly get to my feet I notice a sharp pain in my left arm. This whole idea was put in my head about a month before. Recently, at 5:30 I am sitting under a pavilion listening to the rock and roll music blasting in the background while eating a bagel I 'm not saying much I am looking back at the my first year of riding and wonder how i got to wear i am today, awaiting the start of my first 100 mile mtb race, i recognize how breaking my arm was instrumental to my success as a mountain biker.
Many individuals experience different amounts of failure in their lifetimes. Many learn and grow from their defeats and others let it keep them from succeeding. I made sure that failure was another obstacle to success. Icons like Randy moss didn’t let failure get the best of him when he didn’t make the freshman high school football team, and look at him now, he is one of the best Football players of all time.
A Challenging Life Transition No matter how prepared an individual may be or expecting of a death, to lose a family member to death can be a traumatic experience. The grief process is a difficult process. However most understand that death is a natural and expected life event (McBride, and Simms, 2001). With that said it usually does not make the death of family member any easier to absorb emotionally. Although I have familiarly and awareness because of the deaths of my Father and Sister, it does not mean that I am comfortable with death, or have all the right words to say to comfort a person in the grieving process.
In my brief life, I have overcome a lot of adversity. My mom fled Mexico with her three young children to escape domestic violence. When we came to this country we had only a few personal belongings and the promise of a better future. We came to this country and lived in a small trailer with no toilet other than a bucket, and no shower except for the one that was lent to us from the kindness of a stranger, our new neighbor. As a single parent, my mother had to work day and night to support us.
The time I experienced a major failure would have to be getting terrible grades in middle school. I would be getting failing grade, not caring at all. Once I ended seventh grade, my teacher had a conference with my mom and me , and they said that if I do not get my act together then I would repeat the grade again and that I remember my teacher telling me that I have to go High school because she said it was my calling to succeed in school. After I have finished with summer school, I got everything together and getting academics straight. One Day, I got an email, that said that one of my great friends passed away, and that left me so heartbroken, I stopped getting good grades; everything went downhill, because of that incident and that I became
Only one recent failure that I have experienced can come to my mind: the arrest of my band director Bridgett Szychulski. Our band director had left our school in handcuffs halfway through our marching season. The hopes and dreams that had overtaken the students had dissipated and was then replaced with sadness and an overwhelming feeling of betrayal. I had convinced myself that since I was the leader of this band I had failed them. I somehow should have, could have, done something to help them.
Starting over Starting over might be easy when you are young, but if you are middle age and already have a stable and calm life, it is very hard to start over. My family and I moved from Egypt to The US three years ago, so we had to start from scratch. We found systems in the US are different from my country. After we found a good residence, our concern was finding employment. I was a science teacher in my country, so I tried to find a job in the educational field, but there were a lot of requirements to get a job as a teacher.
One of my experiences with failure took place when I was in fourth grade. There were many problems accumulated and I was a child who needed people to see if I did my homework or study for the test, because I couldn’t concentrate and was distracted by anything in the room. My brother also had problems that year, he needed more attention because he didn’t get along with his math teacher and my Mom was always after him with the homework; otherwise he would have failed Math at the end of the year. In fourth grade, the teacher that was assigned to us was one of the strict teachers that were in that school
Experiencing failure is one of the things that drives people to work to the best of their abilities. Failure can also get people to push themselves to realize that they can do much more than they originally thought they could. Throughout my lifetime, there have been many cases where I have experienced failure, but one is much more prominent than the others. This failure has led me to where I am today and helped shape me into the person that I have become.
Failure is not a reason to hate and shame myself or others. I would like to grow stronger with each accomplishment and even stronger with every
The start of high school everyone told me, “Your friends in middle school will no longer be your friends in high school.” I disagreed at the time because all of us were close, and declared that we wouldn 't let anything come between us. The first semester went well, and all my friends and I were on the Principal’s List, however, Mariana wasn 't. Mariana didn 't come around as much as she did before. She started maturing faster than us. I was concerned because I was like the bandage of our friends; I was always healing and protecting.