Failure: My First Year On The Lewisville Varsity Wrestling Team

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Failure is the product of the inability to achieve a certain goal, outcome, or satisfactory result. The feeling you get from failing is a gut wrenching pain that isn't easy to get rid of. It can disrupt a person’s life and make them second guess themselves and all they have went through. I have also had a profound taste of failure in my sports, work, and school life. But while failures can make life miserable for a moment they can change your outlook on life, help you recover from, and make you realize that if you apply yourself you have a greater chance at accomplishing your goals.

One of the biggest times of failure in my life was my sophomore year on the Lewisville Varsity Wrestling team. It was my first year on the Varsity team and i had

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