As memories race through my head each day I realize how I have failed. Not in academics. Not within relationships or at shaping my own character. I failed at living my childhood the best I could. My brain pushed worry of the future to the front of the line, not allowing me to simply enjoy the swings at the park. Instead, I felt I had to worry what other kids and moms were thinking of me when I thought they saw a kid “too old” to play; a thought solely based on my height, weird hairstyles, and odd clothing choices. I stopped trick or treating. I was 9. I’m too tall, I’m too old for this, this is so embarrassing, I thought. Halloween was no longer an easy-going day. I felt eyes on me from the owners of houses handing out candy and small plastic toys. Instead, I resorted to watching scary movies at home in a cold basement waiting for children to come to my own door in search of candy. No children caused the porch …show more content…
With time to reflect I’ve realized a failure is not necessarily the end; one can always turn a failure into a learning experience. I understand now the importance of both seriousness and fun in life; the simultaneous importance of self-gratification and of the hard work needed to get there. The most important thing for me to realize was when to put such concepts to use. I now know I can have fun, even if I define it differently than others. I recognize the importance of what I am doing as an individual and how my actions now will aid me in the future. Growing up, to me, means accepting blame and changing to learn from it. I accept the self-given blame for not trick-or-treating and not believing in a toy-giving man with a beard and continue to learn from these experiences that there is a time to be serious and a time to let go. With more being expected of me as years pass, I continue to apply the idea of failure leading to success as I know a failure is not the end, but just the
Over my years of school, one big influence on me has always been sports. Ever since a young age, I have always enjoyed playing and watching sports. In my four years in high school, I have fell in love with the sport of lacrosse.
I woke up and took one bite out of my pop tart but that one bite was all I could eat. My legs were shaking, and my heart was pounding. My dad told me, “It is a true honor to even make it this far so go out there and have some fun.” Once I heard this statement, I knew I was ready to go. I arrived at school and boarded the bus. The car ride was an hour and fifteen minutes of hearing the squeaking of the wheel on the bus. My teammates were getting their heads ready for the big game.
There I was on the block next to the High Bar. It was about 5:00 at night when my coach told me to do a Kip. As I got up on the bar my nose filled with the smell of chalk. I started to swing, and as I came out of my half turn I looked good. Everything seemed fine but as I came to the part of the Kip where I have to pull my legs up to the bar, I slammed my shins into the bar. My momentum was stopped and I dropped on to the mat, missing the Kip. I felt like I had let down my coach and I had let down myself too. That day I experienced failure. That failure made me want my Kip even more so I worked harder and had support from my teammates.
Overall, my first semester has been going pretty well. The semester is going like a roller coaster up, down, and fast. I have some bad days and some good days. Through this semester, I have many challenges I faced which I honestly did not want to face. Even though I just wanted to dodge or run away from the challenges, I still face them and fought through them. Some challenges I face this semester, hopefully not in the next, are procrastination, time management, and laziness. I have not only gone through challenges; I have also gone through successes. I am proud of turning assignments on time, passing tests and quizzes, completing my SCR points, and being involved in clubs. Being in Biomed has helped me grow as a student in the area of knowledge.
Some people say money is the root of all evil. I didn’t see it that way. All I saw was a simple task and a big prize. Well, at least I thought it would be easy.
Hi iam Edgardo Flores i was born in casa grande, az not that far away from our state capital,Phoenix, Az.theres nothing better to do in a hot summer than going out with the friends to a lake and have a blast riding jet skis boats and my favorite, swimming!My activites of the day are shooting,riding horses,and my favorite one is quad riding.Thats right! ive been doing these fun exciting hobbies since i was 9 years old.pretty young huh?
Just so you know, this is the Big Apple and I rule this town. New York City is filled with tall buildings, great culture, and historical sites. No other city has so much beauty that it takes your breath away; yet, there is a real danger that lurks on the streets. I should know because I am Detective Michael Morgan a United States Super Spy in charge of capturing dastardly villains who are set on destroying our world. Armed with mind-altering powers, Alex Higgins is on the top of the FBI’s list of the ten most wanted men in America. This thug is one of the greatest danger to our world and must be captured and jailed in the vault of death. There is no place safe for him to hide from the law and rumor has it, he is in my town. You break the law here in New York City, you pay the ultimate price: freedom.
I will not speak of a specific time I failed, but of a period in which I believed I could never accomplish anything. Also, how I failed to acknowledge the importance to myself. I wasn’t necessarily a failure, but the thought of being one, created failure. When I was young I was bullied. I got pushed, pulled by, spit on, smacked by people I considered friends. The comments and the actions of others
The military’s height and weight standard and my ability to successively maintain it. Joining the military at the age of 21 weighing in at 130 pounds; very much in shape and thin, never concerned about how much I weighed in the past. As time went on, I had children and gain weight. Having surgery, which prevented me from working out and more weight was gained. The Military has a standard which I am require to meet, regardless of the circumstances. As I get older and have another surgery the harder it is to keep up with the standard.
Sadly, once the Christmas tree had been put away and the New Year's Eve confetti had been swept up, I could find no excuse not to tackle my most pressing post-holiday need - losing some weight. Most adults put on at least a little weight over the holidays, and crowded fitness center parking lots every January attest to the fact that a good many want to then shed that weight, at least until New Year's resolutions are forgotten. I decided to see if I could combine my weight-loss goals with my interest in technology. I found a free app for my Android phone called Lose it!, and suddenly the dreary chore of losing weight became a bit more interesting. Lose it! is available for both Android phones and the iPhone. The app works well on my Droid
My key responsibility was to understand the business scenarios of customer & net-new accounts to identify operational/business issues in various lines of businesses. Identifying key pain areas or future IT projects of customers/prospects and preparing Market intelligence report on it and work in line with respective IMR (Inside Marketing Representative) to facilitate customer engagement ahead. Working with technical & industry experts to analyze & understand the customer requirements and map suitable applications. Using strong prospecting and account management to achieve monthly, quarterly and yearly pipeline and forecast goals as well as other defined objectives by management. Over-achieved pipeline revenue opportunities ( 214%+ of expected
To describe a time that a leader I know “Challenged the Process”, I am going to look back at the example that I used for our last reflection. One-day last summer while working for the Boulder County trail crew, my crew, as well as one more, were tasked with moving a 1-ton bridge using grip-hoists (manually-operated winches), and it proved to be a much more daunting task than we had anticipated. After many failed attempts to move the bridge, frustration among crew members was at an all-time high. We were working near a high-use mountain bike trail, and many riders had been watching our progress, so the pressure to accomplish our goal was higher than usual.
My life has been filled with problems with learning or getting to know new people since I wasn't a very good learner or very sociable. All my failures from my past school experience and dropping out of high school in 10th grade it just made my learning ability difficult to understand things in college since there was a lot of things I do not know and wasn't ever taught the result from that made me hate failure and the ability not to give up until the very end also bad parts of my life just shaped me into a person who doesn't like meeting new people. Always I mean always provide a first bad impression I don't know why but that's how I first present myself being part of a group makes me feel uncomfortable reason why is that wasn't ever around people or kids and slowly enjoyed time alone and when I got older I simply just did not like meeting new
A massive, dangerous opportunity that I followed, was coming to the United States during a time where I had to focus on studying subjects that I stand used to its curriculum and take the Scholastic Aptitude Test in a language that I remain familiar with. However, I persuaded my mother on the decision of coming here to America. Although she highly hesitated about it, she as quite wanted to support me to earn the conventional education possible.
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?