How Learning Has Changed My Life Essay

Turing a Past failure into success Being able to learn from a failure and turn it into success has changed my life forever. When I was a kid I was different then other kids. Learning was hard for me and I would get into conflicts with my parents all the time. They would try to teach me all kinds of learning techniques and I would get frustrated with every single one of them. Night after night my parent would worry that I was going to be living with them for the rest of their lives. I felt that I was a failure and that my life would turn out to flipping burgers or being a garbage man. Now being seventeen I am able to say that I can be something more than someone flipping burgers or picking up peoples trash. As a kid learning was something that was efficient for some and difficult for others. For me learning was hard because my thought process was different than most kids. Also, my thought process was slow to pick up on certain things which made it easy for bullies to bully me. I had a really hard time with bullies to the point that I would just go along with it not knowing the problems that came along with it down the road. My parents eventually got involved and fixed the problem. The learning disability got so bad that my …show more content…
Leaving Marburn and going to a Public school was hard because I was used to the Marburn life and did not want to leave. Genoa was hard for me in the beginning but towards the end of middle school it got better. At first, Genoa was difficult and the bullies came back. I still had issues with learning but I used the tools that Marburn gave me and was able to be successful at Genoa. In fact Seventh grade year is when things changed. Something clicked and I was able to figure out certain phrases and stay in touch with learning. In eighth grade learning was not so hard. I did really well eighth grade year and was able to transfer that into high