Facing Failure

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Facing Failure
Everyone must face failure sometime or another throughout their life. However, with failure always comes an important lesson learned. There have been many occasions where I have failed, and what I have learned is that you just need to get right back up and try again. There was one time in particular where I was absolutely terrified from one of my failures – and it had a major effect on me. This specific failure involved me driving home from camp with a friend one day.
My friend, Chelsea, and I were planning on going to camp together one day to visit our friends who were coming up from Lower Michigan. We were arranging this trip for months, and we finally got all of our stuff packed a couple days before we were supposed to arrive there. We had everything planned out fairly quickly. We would be taking my car because of the better gas mileage, and I would be driving there and back. We got up extra early that morning to start driving; we wanted to get there earlier than everyone else so we could get our tent set up. We planned on staying there for one week; we went thro...

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