College Admissions Essay: Learning To Failure

Everyone is scared to fail or even talk about failing, but failure doesn't always mean total defeat. For many people it’s a starting point. A place where you can reevaluate yourself and take charge of the situation. I’m not ashamed to admit that I have dealt with failure many times; from a small child to even now as an adolescent. When I was little, I had a hard time in school; not with just one subject, but with most of them. I was never an avid reader like my older sisters. They ate books up, where I would rather color and make up songs about the weather. As a result, I was placed in the slow readers group at my elementary school. They thought that would help me, but when that turned out to be fruitless, my teacher had specialized meetings …show more content…
This carried with me throughout everything. I constantly compared myself and found that I was coming up short every single time. So, what do you do? How do you move on from not feeling good enough? You set goals. Ones that you can see yourself achieving. From there on I pushed myself. Forcing myself to read and slowly learning to love it. Today, I’m involved in my school’s drama program; never in a million years would I think that I would be going down to state year after year and performing for hundreds of people. Being able to do that means so much to me because I know how much work it took for me to get there: reading and memorizing my lines, double checking that every word, phrase, and sentence was in the right spot, and occasionally giving myself pep talks when I was feeling frustrated. This was my way to prove to myself that I could do something great on my own. I could make a whole room laugh and feel joy all on my own. It’s not about me saying that I’m now the greatest and that I’ve changed so much. This is about me loving and forgiving myself. No, I’m not perfect, but I put my heart and brain into everything I