“Few of our own failures are fatal”, economist and Financial Times columnist Tim Harford writes in his book, Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure. Failures are Tran substantial with that being said, every mistake endured you are able to alter the outcome. Mistakes are a minor setback that each and every one of us encounter. Although we all would like to think that we are perfect, mistakes still linger around like a bad habit. My biggest mistake would be when I allowed a person, to physically and emotionally destroy me. People can portray themselves to be someone they are not, allowing you to fall in for the untruthfulness of the individual’s actual well-being. Although I wish I could take back every minute spent from my mistake, it
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He went from sweet and caring to controlling and demanding. I was talked down on if I talked to anyone he didn’t approve of, close friends or not. Friends and family were no longer a priority but an option. My time was to be spent with him or at school, He wanted me to be this person I wasn’t. Soon enough, the physical abuse started. The first time the physical abuse happened, I didn’t know what to think. I was hurt but more than anything I was angry, how could someone who claims to have such strong feelings for me cause me to be in pain? “You aren’t a failure until you start to blame” (Dweck 36) I was always the target of blame when he started physically abusing me, I was either causing the problem, or adding to it, and in his opinion, that was to be treated with physical and emotional abuse. Dealing with the abuse was hard, but the hardest part was allowing him to do what he was doing to me. I knew it wasn’t smart to be with someone who would go as low as to constantly make me feel discouraged or hurt about myself. The whole relationship was putting me in a bad place. I messed up so much of my life for this one person, and I knew it was time to let go but where do you go when you have cut everyone
He went from sweet and caring to controlling and demanding. I was talked down on if I talked to anyone he didn’t approve of, close friends or not. Friends and family were no longer a priority but an option. My time was to be spent with him or at school, He wanted me to be this person I wasn’t. Soon enough, the physical abuse started. The first time the physical abuse happened, I didn’t know what to think. I was hurt but more than anything I was angry, how could someone who claims to have such strong feelings for me cause me to be in pain? “You aren’t a failure until you start to blame” (Dweck 36) I was always the target of blame when he started physically abusing me, I was either causing the problem, or adding to it, and in his opinion, that was to be treated with physical and emotional abuse. Dealing with the abuse was hard, but the hardest part was allowing him to do what he was doing to me. I knew it wasn’t smart to be with someone who would go as low as to constantly make me feel discouraged or hurt about myself. The whole relationship was putting me in a bad place. I messed up so much of my life for this one person, and I knew it was time to let go but where do you go when you have cut everyone