Personal Reflective Essay: Learning To Fish

Winston Churchill once said, “Success is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” This quote would guide me through the past few months of learning how to fish and taught me that nobody is perfect, so it is alright to struggle a little. It is how you learn from that struggle that really sets you up for how quickly you want to succeed. Learning to fish would prove to be the most important life lesson that I would experience. In fact, I would apply it to different aspects of my life.
One summer morning, I woke up at South Padre island. As the sun was slowly making itself known to the world, so was my enthusiasm to catch a fish for the first time. I was excited to go fishing with my dad for the first time since he had promised me for my 14th birthday that we would go fishing in the summer. We got up at five in the morning to go to the pier. It was a nice …show more content…
For example, when I find myself being out achieved by my friends, I can bust out the fact that I caught a shark. This helps me feel a little better about myself, and shoots up my self-esteem pretty quickly. Consequently, this makes me feel above others which shows in my behavior when I am evaluating an equal. However, I have been trying to change this by monitoring my behavior, but sometimes the feeling of wanting to be more overcomes me and I get carried away up to the point where I have lost friends because of my incompetence. The effects are that I end up hating myself even more because of the way I make people feel. Nothing can compare to losing friends that you have had since you were in elementary school. As a result, I have gone to talk to a counselor about my behavior and tendencies, and progress is being made to fix my flaw. Because of my achievement, I have unintentionally used it to hurt other people’s feelings, and now I must fix