My Greatest Failure Research Paper

In my short life, of seventeen years, I have experienced an exponential amount of failures, and these shortcomings have done nothing besides make me a better person. I have produced so many failures, that when I was asked to choose from them. I had to write out a list and put them in order from least to greatest. At the top of this list was my greatest blunder, next is the one I learned the most from, last is my funnest. Before I proceed with my life's worst moments, I would like to write this quote “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is to always try just one more time.” (Thomas A. Edison). I believe that it would be, in this instance, better to start with the last and least important of my failures. This particular day started just like any other day my alarm went off and I got out of bed had a shower, drank my coffee, brushed my …show more content…
I was only ten years old in Indiana, but I remember this failure like it was yesterday. Me and my siblings were outside next to a snow tunnel, we had built the night before, and because of the lake effect in Indiana even the snow had turned to solid ice. I was the first one to go inside and when I did the ice gave way; in less then a second two hundred pounds of ice came on top of me. I don’t know if anyone else reading this knows what that feels like, but to describe it in short terms imagine that someone dropped a steel beam on you. All the air was knocked out of my lungs and just so you know you cant breath when under snow and ice. My siblings ran inside and got my Mom and Dad, who franticly ran out and started to search for my head. I ice was to thick and they couldn't find any other part of me except for my feet, so my Mom and Dad grabbed them and pulled me as hard as they could freeing me from the ice. I don’t remember them doing that part, but I do recall being able to breath