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Personal Narrative: The Road To Success

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Most people believe that there are two paths in life. The first one is an uncomplicated, straight road to success without any mistakes, while the second one is a road with errors, twists and turns that leads to failure. The truth is that neither of those are the real roads to success. The road to success is paved with our failures, but in order to succeed our desire for success needs to be greater than our fear of failure. I believe that failures are learning experiences on the road to success. People tend to take the easy way out to avoid a setback or delay in reaching their goal, otherwise known as failure. We believe that when we fail it is an imperfect sign or a poor reflection of ourselves to our peers. We are scared to fail; that fear takes over us, makes us tense and not perform as well as we could. When trying to avoid failure we become stagnant and do not grow or get any closer to the goal that we are trying to reach. In the process of avoiding what makes us frightened we complete beginner tasks so that we can achieve effortless success. The success that you achieve doing a simple task is not “real” success, but phony and we are telling an evasion to ourselves. That success is not making us better, but forcing us to stay at a mediocre level in whatever we are doing. Also, events or activities that could be learning experiences make …show more content…

It is up to you, how bad do you want to be successful and achieve greatness? We must remember the road is not a straight one, but a road full of unexpected stops with twists and turns that cause vexations. Use your failures and mistakes as your teacher or as an objective to reach, because that is what they are there for. We can not let fear rule our lives, remember we control how we react from a failure and they are just learning experiences on the road to

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