The Last Race

I feel awkward answering this question because I have made many mistakes and there isn’t anything good out of those mistakes. In my opinion, wrong decisions never bring anything positive. Wrong decisions decrease morale and self-esteem. At a young age, mistakes or wrong decisions don’t affect much, but as you get older wrong decisions can have a tremendous negative impact. There aren’t second chances for people who make wrong decisions. I know that deep down below the surface mistakes can bring opportunities to learn and improve ourselves, but in this rapidly changing and moving world, there isn’t time to reflect and learn from those mistakes. If wrong decisions brought opportunities for learning and personal improvement, many

“If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.” I agree with this statement, because everyone makes a mistake at least once in their life. All a mistake does is show that you are human. What matters is what you do with your mistake.

Everybody makes mistakes. Failure can be a motivation, for it drives you to have a bigger passion for your desired goal. Success and failure have a relationship in which you can learn from your mistakes but later succeed.

The purpose and benefits of recognising and learning from mistakes are so you don’t make them again and also to learn what you did wrong so it can be put right.

The one real mistake I believe we can make in life is to not learn from missteps

It is always good to learn from your mistakes. Sometimes mistakes can be considered good things because it lets a person change how they do something and that there could be many ways for doing one task.

You’re lining up now!” You turn and look at the whiteboard, and sure enough, a big 19 is spread across the top. Although it pains you to do it, you remove your heated, comfy layer of sweats, exposing your newly formed goosebumps, and head down to the pool. When you arrive at the table, a woman checks off your name and tells you to sit in the fourth chair down. It’s only been an hour, and the woman looks as though she has been working for three days straight. You don’t recognize either of the girls sitting next to you. It turns out that the girl to your right is from Watertown, and the girl to your left is from Cortland. You strike up a conversation with the girl from Watertown, and it turns out that you have a lot in common. Gradually, the line would inch forward, and you would be stuck sitting in someone else's chair, in which they had left a pool of water in, so you resort to sitting on the very edge of the chair. About two races before your own, your coach walks by, and starts talking to you, knowing that you are very nervous. “Don’t worry about it, you will do fine! Just remember, the faster you swim, the faster you’ll be able to dry off and get warm again.” You nod and laugh shyly and continue to anxiously wait for your race.

“You may begin!” Everybody dived into the paper. I stood at the front of the room with the timer in my hand. As the timer went off, I yelled,

Hanna screamed “ You will do great, let’s go ladies!” The gunman had yelled, “Runners to your mark…” Snap!

Never running in muddy and cold weather like this, I became even more nervous, hoping I would not fall. Only thirty minutes before the race, I began stretching. After stretching, I found my chute and realized I would be sharing it with three other girls. We talked until the official came over to talk to all the girls. “Girls who participating in the 1A race, you have 1 minute until the race starts,” the official explained. Quickly I took off my outer garments until I was in my shorts and jersey tank.

Human beings make mistakes; sometimes they learn from their first mistake, sometimes they learn after

Everyone has their mistakes, their failures, that make them who they are. However, with those misjudgements, there is always someone or something out there that will help you get out of the time. Everything that is done, there is a purpose and a reason. The mistakes you make will be made either present times or in the future, it's the choices

One example is from the movie “The Dead Poets Society” from the scene of Neil Perry’s death. Just before the scene of Neil’s death he had an argument with his father about his acting and just before they were finished Neil’s father said “sleep on it”. Unfortunately Neil did not sleep witch lead to Neil committing suicide. Neil did not get any sleep meaning he wasn’t thinking clearly and used poor judgment. I think that this all could have been avoided if Neil got some sleep and started fresh in the morning. In my recent life experience I was working on installing software for my computer and experienced issues at the start. I took a break from my computer after having issues with the install and when I returned I was able to finish it. It helps quite a bit when you take a break from a task and pick it up later. I also had an experience in making a few mistakes in training for the Police Explorers. One mistake I made was during crime scene training where I failed to perform my leadership duties. I got overloaded and did not assign my team with their assignments and after I did I learned from that mistake and will not let it happen again. The second mistake I made was getting ahead of myself and not finishing a task correctly. Learning from your mistakes makes you a better person and keeps you from making the same or different mistakes, as I have learned you take the good and you leave the

Everyone, at some point in their life, has made a mistake. Sometimes we get lucky and only falter a little, making it through the problem relatively intact. Other times, we mess up a lot and have to fix what was damaged over a long period of time. However, the same is true for most, if not all cases—those who make the mistake learn from it. Often times, our failures teach us valuable lessons that we only gained because of the experience we gathered after messing up. I have personally achieved a wealth of knowledge and experience just from all of my own little mishaps, and a few major ones.

A famous saying by Al Franken goes like “Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless its a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.” I think mistakes are necessary. It shapes you to become a better, wiser and a stronger person who is prepared to face further challenges as well.