Personal Narrative: How Am I Going To Transition From Middle School To High School

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Failure is a noun that traditionally puts a bad taste in someones mouth and scares them off. As a person, it's a little different for me, I view it as an opportunity to grow. When I do fail I don't sit down an moan, I get up and look at how it influenced me to be a greater human being. Friedrich Nietzsche once said, "That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
There's one experience that sticks out more than any of the rest when it comes to failure for myself. This incident played such a huge role in my high school years that I will never forget it. So, it was my 8th grade summer going into freshman year and at the time, I had a lot of things on my mind. "How am I going to transition from middle school to high school?" or "Am I going to

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