The first day was a criterium, a one mile high speed loop race, after 15 miles of the race I was pulled for being too
The first day was a criterium, a one mile high speed loop race, after 15 miles of the race I was pulled for being too
Overcoming my Struggles As a little boy, going to bed was the best part of the night. It is when your eyes are hanging low and you are doing everything you can to stay awake to hear a story that your mother reads to you before she tucks you in bed. Hearing and understanding words as a little boy was not that hard for me. I could comprehend words and say them, but as I started to go to school my parents knew something was not right. In my opinion, my struggles with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) continue to be a challenge with the struggles I had before I found out about my diagnoses, finding out about my Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) changing the way I did things, and continuing to overcome my challenges I have with Attention Deficit…
“You cheated”, slipped from my mouth. I was referring to my English Class. Frustration, filled my voice as I was disappointed in myself because I received a B. In my life I have only ever got one B and for reasons beyond my control and to complex to be explained. However, this B feels like my first real B. It resembles the first course that has ever conquered me. The whole time I have been striving to get A’s not for my gpa but for myself because it was something attainable that I was certain I could accomplish and that seemed to solely rest upon me.…
At a younger age, I would say I believed that I can only trust myself and my mother, this is because as a little kid my mom would always tell me that there are bad people in the world and that giving them any information about anything can be very harmful. But as I grew up and realized what was actually happening in my country I knew there were millions of others that were suffering against the “bad people” and we could only do something about it if the whole community came together to help. It was at that time when I was about 25, when I started to put some effort into trying to establish more just conditions within my country especially after the implication of extremely high food prices. This is when I started my first strike involving my…
As the stadium lights slowly began to blind me, the smile I was wearing started to fade as I felt an overwhelming, nauseating sensation flow over my entire body; I thought that flags only slipped through hands on battlefields, not on a Friday night during a high school half time show. Failure is a one-way mirror. When standing in front of the mirror, the failure simply stares back in the form of a reflection. My first performance for the high school color guard amounted to the show flag slipping through my clutches and slamming onto the freshly cut, football field grass. The searing embarrassment that followed felt like the end of the world.…
Have you ever expeierienced failure?I have in fact I did not too long ago. On January 9th the 3rd quarter started for students at Mountain Pointe Highschool and one of those students was me. The day wasnt a bad one I was going from class to class each one giving little to no homework at all until I went to 6th period Mr. Shiflettes class which wasnt a crapy class I had a few friends to talk to and the teacher (Mr. Shiflette) was a cool laid back type of guy but once he gave the class an essay to do on the first day of the fourth quarter I was furious. Before January 9th or the start of the third quarter we were on Winter Break which was nice you could sleep in, stay up late, and by the end of it celebrate Christmas with your family so when the quarter started i was in a lazy mood because we had just gotten back from break.…
I have not been thinking differently but I am surely endeavoring. I have an arduous time changing things about myself so at this point I am just gradually endeavoring. After reading these two chapters I endeavor to disunite my emotions from my thinking due to the fact that they incline to get me into an abundance of trouble. Prior to making decisions, I stop and notice first if I am allowing my emotions to get in the way. I ascertain no emotions are tied to my decisions just so at the end I get a good outcome.…
There have been several occasions where I doubted myself, thinking that maybe I’m not a runner after all. I have wanted to quit more times than I want to admit. I place a lot of pressure on myself to be the best so one poor performance in a meet and I really get down on myself. I then remember the talent God has given me, and how I have to work hard to use it. So, I use my frustration to push forward and prepare for the next race.…
My key life lessons are that nothing beats hard work and if you treat others with respect, they will generally treat you with respect. Hard work and effort are the main aspects that lead to “lucky” things happening. Good things don’t just fall into people’s laps, the ones that have the most “luck” generally are those that put in the most effort and work. Also, I have learned that when you truly respect those around, they will respect you back and life is much easier when you aren’t doing things behind each other’s backs.…
A Point Where I Gave Up Being a perfectionist has it's positives and negatives. Perfection for me was a matter of not allowing myself to fail at anything. Experiencing failure to me allows a person to grow and to learn how to overcome failure. I grew up as a perfectionist, but recently, I have learned the value of failure. I am a perfectionist because I never want to disappoint my father.…
A Lesson Learned When I was younger, a lot of people took time out of their day to ruin mine. The only thing is, I was in fourth grade when I discovered writing. It was hard to imagine me not writing. My mind had been opened to this beautiful, fictional reality.…
As an American business owner, if I heard that statement I would be outraged. My thoughts would be, I have worked so hard to get where I am, I paid all my loans from when I started, and this was my dream and I made this happen on my own. But, as you see time and time again, when speeches are given after winning an award, such as a music award, they thank many people for helping them get to where they are; they thank parents, god, producers, etc. Therefore, there is truth behind "You didn't get successful on your own" (Obama, 2012).…
I've made a lot of mistakes, just like any other person, but one shining example that comes to mind when I think about growth from personal failure is my freshman year of high school. I failed English, Algebra, and Health. I had to spend three days in summer school recovering credits. My freshman year of high school was a tough year. I had a very hard time staying motivated and focused, forget being anywhere near organized.…
I felt the walls caving in. It was February of junior year, my grades were falling, my friends were disappearing, and I was struggling to find a prom date. I was at a dead end, I needed to change direction but there was nowhere to go. I decided to create a path. It started with a notebook, and continues on to this moment.…
"Pop! Pop!...Smack!" From the vault table to the mat in less than a second. Tears began to well up in my eyes as I sat on the chalky, eight inch mat. I grasped at my elbow hoping the pain would soon go away but my hopes did nothing but make me feel worse as I waited. My coach rushed over to me from her spotting block and asked me, "Are you ok?…
Personal Narrative Why is failure the best teacher? I am going to answer this question using personal stories as examples. Failure is the best teacher because no matter what it changes a person, if someone fails and gives up it shows them that they didn’t really want to succeed badly in the first place, if someone fails and uses their failures to then succeed than they learned what it took to make their endeavour go right. We learn from failure by deciding how we are going to react to it and depending on that reaction, it can be a large change, or a small change.…