Failure In High School

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Have you ever thought that failing a class or a grade will completely change your life and they way you think about life? Not many of you have thought about it until you’ve failed some- where during your early 20’s or mid 20’s period of your life. Failing does not necessarily ruins or destroys your career in fact it’s effect’s should make you more focused and more dedicative for something that you failed in the first attempt, one should always fails at some point of life in order to know what success is like.
Krishna Rao at age 28 an Entrepreneur ,Photographer and Traveler is one of my family friends who is going to attend Harvard University this Fall so that he can pursue a Masters in Business Management Degree.I am really happy to say that this friend of mine failed 11th grade before 7 years when he was in High School and his life had turned miserable just because of this one reason and that is failing. It was the month of may when this incident took place Indian High School Board had published the results for 11th and 12th grade, parents were eagerly waiting to see how their children did on the exams and were sitting to the nearest computers or any electronic device on which one can see results online. I still remember I had gone to Krishna’s home that morning to ask him about what over all grade did he get in his 11th grade and which was his easiest & hardest exam, as soon as I walked into his house I saw his dad yelling at him I immediately figured out the reason of his dad
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for completing my bachelors but as I said in previous paragraph nothing in this world can stop you from reaching your goals except yourself only you have that ultimate power to be and not to be something that you want to

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