From the day you are born expectations are held over your head, weighing down on your shoulders as you try to live up to the expectations society has held for you. Becoming a nameless face in a sea of people, each fighting for the same thing, to break free and stand out. Success is a difficult thing to achieve and is sometimes seen as futile yet keep in mind that “Giving up is the only sure way to fail”. (Gena Showalter) Failure is inevitable yet what makes you is what you can learn from that failure and take with you as a lesson. Each person has failed in some way or another in their lifetime big or small each failure taught a lesson thus impacted the person.
Constantly reminded throughout my life to work hard in school to earn good grades …show more content…
With the school year coming to a close I figure d I had everything down, having good grades for three quarters made the fourth quarter look like a breeze. During the fourth quarter as the year began to come to a close finals week arrived sooner than I had hoped and before I knew it I was sitting at my desk with the clock ticking away the minutes I had left to make or break my grade. As the steady sound of the hands against the clock ticked away I began to stress for the first time this year on my choices for this school year. This exam would be a large amount of my grade, would I be able to pass the quarter if I failed this test or even be able to finish the next page in the next five …show more content…
Some things in life cannot be changed and it is what you make of that failure that defines your character and dictates your future. Failure is a difficult thing to process at times yet helps shape each person's character into adulthood.
In conclusion, this event changed my outlook I had on life by evaluating my decisions and their impact on myself and others. It is my goal to succeed in school for the future but it is no ones responsibility but my own to achieve my goal by working hard each day to achieve my long term goal of attending college. To reach this goal it is my responsibility to work harder so that failure isn’t an option, failure is inevitable but each decision I make will affect my future so in order to be successful in the future I must evaluate each decision and their long term
Constantly reminded throughout my life to work hard in school to earn good grades …show more content…
With the school year coming to a close I figure d I had everything down, having good grades for three quarters made the fourth quarter look like a breeze. During the fourth quarter as the year began to come to a close finals week arrived sooner than I had hoped and before I knew it I was sitting at my desk with the clock ticking away the minutes I had left to make or break my grade. As the steady sound of the hands against the clock ticked away I began to stress for the first time this year on my choices for this school year. This exam would be a large amount of my grade, would I be able to pass the quarter if I failed this test or even be able to finish the next page in the next five …show more content…
Some things in life cannot be changed and it is what you make of that failure that defines your character and dictates your future. Failure is a difficult thing to process at times yet helps shape each person's character into adulthood.
In conclusion, this event changed my outlook I had on life by evaluating my decisions and their impact on myself and others. It is my goal to succeed in school for the future but it is no ones responsibility but my own to achieve my goal by working hard each day to achieve my long term goal of attending college. To reach this goal it is my responsibility to work harder so that failure isn’t an option, failure is inevitable but each decision I make will affect my future so in order to be successful in the future I must evaluate each decision and their long term