Failure After High School

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We all have failures in our lives, but for me the one that left the biggest impression was my experience in high school. Now I’ll be honest about not exactly being a scholar in school. My first two years of high school were pretty terrible (by most standards). I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life after high school. I just knew that I was planning on going to college for something and who knows what afterwards. I just skimmed by with decent to below average grades not really caring about what happens. It wasn’t until junior year of high school when I found what I loved to do and what I wanted to do with my life (programming and mostly anything computer related). Now that I had a reason to succeed per se, I started turn my life around …show more content…

This experience taught me many lessons that pertain not only to school, but life in general. The most important less being that failure isn’t the end. Would I like to go back and fix my first two years of high school and have a spectacular GPA and academic record? Yes! But, looking back, it taught me something that success could never teach me. That failure isn’t the end. My sister has always done well in school and now she is attending Purdue Lafayette for pharmacy. She hit her first wall in her academic career with bio-chemistry and failed the class, even though she worked very hard (trust me, she did). She acted like it was the end of career, that she could never achieve here dreams, and that it was an embarrassment to fail. Me looking at here situation, it wasn’t that big of a deal. Yes, you failed, but you tried your hardest. You need to get up and try again, not sit there and whine about the situation and do nothing about it. It does nothing for you. The reason I say that is because I was in that situation, but reversed. I started out failing, but got up and started to do something about it. Even though I was doing pretty bad, I was still able to recover a little of what I have loss in two years. This is the first slip up for her and she treated it like there was nothing she could do to fix

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