Failure In Middle School

As human beings in this world, it is customary for us to encounter failures at any given points in our lives. These failures are essential, for we as individuals mature and become better people as we learn from them. In my brief life, I've encountered many failures that taught me life lessons, but one specific incident that inspired me to strive into becoming a better person and truly thinking of school in a different way occurred back when I was just beginning my first year in middle school.

Growing up as a child, I always had good grades and did well in school. Throughout elementary school, I did well on all my tests and classwork; my teachers had even told me that my reading skills were slightly above average.

After graduating elementary school and entering the beginning of my middle school year, this all changed for a slight period of time. I went into middle school having the same mindset as I did for every previous elementary school year, which was do everything at the last minute and rarely ever studying for a test. In my first week of middle school, I thought it was fairly easy. Everyday after school I would go to soccer practice, go home, eat dinner, shower and go to sleep instead focusing on my priorities which was suppose to be on schoolwork. That upcoming week, my English teacher had informed me that my grades were dropping by the day and that I should consider a tutor. …show more content…
It was progress report time and all my grades were fairly decent, but my English grade. I had a failing grade and it was my entire fault. To be failing in a course that I believed I excelled in devastated me, it caused me to understand what I needed to do to get through school. What was truly a learning point for me though was that I disappointed my parents, who had such high expectations for