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College Admissions Essay: My Greatest Failure

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My Greatest Failure My greatest failure had led to one of my greatest accomplishments. I hate to look back at the period where I struggled.. From as long as I can remember, I always thought I was never good enough. There was always someone prettier, taller, richer, or more talented than I thought I was. I had a range of insecurities from my grades at school to the home I grew up in. Looking back, it was like a rain cloud over my head. I remember this rain cloud of insecurities following me from kindergarten until my senior year of high school. This rain cloud tried to destroy the person I was growing to be. My greatest failure was giving into this rain cloud and almost letting it destroy me. Freshman year was the year of prosperity for the rain cloud. A large, new school meant harder classes, more girls to compete with, and new classmates to impress. The rain cloud grew until I could not stand to be under it anymore. “I have to change myself to make myself better, more likeable, more attractive!” is what I thought. “How can I change myself? I can make myself skinner! Then everyone will like me and all my insecurities will disappear.” At a …show more content…

With that philosophy began the war between the rain cloud and I. My weapons against the rain cloud included fasting, purging after eating, and going on the treadmill for two or more hours a day. After a few month I was winning! I lost weight, looked great, and felt happy. I knew nothing about eating disorders and never thought that I had one. That is until I became very ill. My unhealthy eating habits that I thought were helping me were doing the opposite. These habits became more frequent and intense. I started experiencing massive headaches, my skin broke out in rashes because I was depriving myself of vital vitamins and nutrients, my muscles were fatigue, and my hair began to fall out. That is when I knew I had a

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