Personal Narrative: I Am A Perfectionist

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I can say that I am a perfectionist, and I have always wanted to do and make the best of everything I do. With being a perfectionist, everything he or she does has to be right. If it’s not I just failed at what I had to do. In my eyes my failure is what kept me striving at what I needed to do to make it. It was also a lesson I learned on how to improve my game at the next level. Then I noticed that I was not, and could not be the best at everything I done. I realized the more times I attempted what I wanted to do it made me better. It also made me look at what I was doing wrong at the time I was doing it. So I’ll tell everybody about the day I found out I was good enough, and what I done to better myself. It was back in the 9th grade. When it was time for basketball tryouts, and I knew students from different middle schools was going to try out too. I learned how to play basketball from playing with my big cousin and his friends. That day everyone was talking about who would make the team and how hard it was going to …show more content…
At the next day for practice, the player I trained with told me that I had worked hard enough, but to earn the staring spot over him. Our team had played well for the rest of the season, but lost the semifinals by a free throw. The next day, the coach called me and said that he wanted me to be on his team next year. After we had hung the phone up, I knew that I had accomplished a goal that I had always wanted to accomplish. I called my big cousin to tell him the great news, and he told me that he knew I would make the varsity team one day. I had thanked God for being by my side, and letting me accomplish my goal. The next season came and we won that state championship against the number two team in the state. I was also named the player of the game, and player of the year on the

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