Personal Narrative: Lessons Learned From Failure

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The lessons we take from failure can be fundamental to later success. Recount an incident or time when you experienced failure. How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience. Just before your adulthood you are going through high school. Students often take high school serious, some students just do it to get it done, and others just don’t care. From my personal experience, up until the beginning of my junior year of highschool, I didn’t take school very serious. I just joked around with friends, played games, and turned work in whenever. Coming into the 11th grade, I thought I was a hotshot, I thought I already knew all of the information that I was going to be taught. I thought I was prepared for my junior year, and ready …show more content…
I began to think, my parents don’t have an accumulation of wealth, that meant they wouldn’t be able to pay for my full college tuition. I thought I was for sure done. I began to talk to my friends, my family, my significant other, and some of my teachers. I didn’t want to believe that I was the only person feeling like this. I wanted to see if they ever in their life had the same thoughts. I wanted to see how some of them acted in high school and how it affected them. The most important question I had was, did they have their future planned out? Then I learned that most of my peers didn’t even know what they wanted to be or do when they went into college. Moreover, my friends haven’t even had thought about a week from now. This thought hasn’t came to mind to them; well most of them. I took this to my advantage. I thought it was a sign, I took everything for granted all up until now. I began to take this serious. I wanted to do what I thought was best for me and that was to begin to plan out what I wanted to do after I graduate from high school. I built on from this failure, despite spending hours and hours of just constant thoughts, I finally had a plan. Even though it may not work out, it was better than

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