Personal Narrative: Have You Ever Expeierienced Failure

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Have you ever expeierienced failure?I have in fact I did not too long ago.On January 9th the 3rd quarter started for students at Mountain Pointe Highschool and one of those students was me.The day wasnt a bad one I was going from class to class each one giving little to no homework at all until I went to 6th period Mr. Shiflettes class which wasnt a crapy class I had a few friends to talk to and the teacher (Mr. Shiflette) was a cool laid back type of guy but once he gave the class an essay to do on the first day of the fourth quarter I was furious. Before January 9th or the start of the third quarter we were on Winter Break which was nice you could sleep in, stay up late, and by the end of it celebrate Christmas with your family so when the quarter started i was in a lazy mood because we had just gotten back from break. …show more content…
When that happened i hoped that the grades wouldnt come or they wouldnt care because it was only a quarter grade not a semester grade but they did in fact they ended up grounding me and taking all my electronics and told youll get these back when you bring up those grades.All because of that one decision to not do my work it ended up putting me in this mess and it wasnt even that i was mad that my electronics got taken away it was that i felt ashamed of myself and i felt bad for letting my parents down.Ever sense then ive been doing most of my work in all my classes trying to keep my grades up so that i dont have to be ashamed

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