Throughout our childhood we gather, retain, and forget information. The memories that are left are often the ones that mold us to the people we are today. My unforgettable memory is when I was playing soccer and I tore my ACL in 8th grade, this was the moment I experienced the feeling of failure. Failure is a feeling that people can look back on and say they do not wish to experience again, I am no different. I remember the sweet smell of dew and morning on the fresh grass that Saturday morning. The field was marked in white paint to indicate the court. The feeling invincibility coursed through my veins. I stepped onto my stage and watched the audience admire me and the hot spotlight beaming down on me. The referee blew the whistle and the final quarter of the soccer game began. A fellow teammate passed the checkered ball to me and I ran towards the goal. We were down by one goal and I knew I could make the shot, I could hear the crowds uproar and hollering my name as I sprinted. The air combed it's cold fingers through my hair as a ran past defenders. I felt my heartbeat accelerate the closer I got to the goal, I could feel and see the destination in the distance. I sprinted as fast and agile as my legs could tolerate, then out of the …show more content…
I put in a hundred percent effort for a year but I could not get my knee to budge past 90 degrees. The summer of freshman year I went back to see the doctor who preformed the surgery and he said the cause was scar tissue blocking my range of motion. Two weeks into my start of freshman year I went to undergo my second surgery to have the tissue removed. When I returned to school after days of being absent after the nine week grading period my grades plummeted. I was on the brink of failing from elements of my control. Again I swallowed the capsule of failure and trudged on to change my future. I did physical therapy with renewed determination and pulled my grades up to
Failure to me was the position I was stuck in as a little girl, my family was stuck with little resources and stayed in the same neighborhood. In order for my expectations of my life to be where they are at now, they required me to live with that failure.
What exactly is failure? It is, according to the dictionary, “Lack of success.” Many people say that “failure isn’t the falling down, but the staying down.” But who are we to say? Lack of hope, the thought that death and failure are one and the same, and a pessimistic outlook on life can cause someone to fail, but thankfully not everyone falls victim to these. Failure is always controversial, because people view things and events differently. As Elaine Maxewell once said, “My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny.”
Failure is described as "lack of success". Success is defined as "the accomplishment of an aim or purpose". If failure is lack of success and success is to accomplish an aim or purpose, then I have failed a lot of times in my life. I was well-raised in a little island called Dominican Republic. I am proud to be Dominican.
Failure can cause a torrent of mixed emotions and thoughts. One can begin to doubt their motives for even attempting to succeed at a certain task. Some people may choose to give up after failure, but there are a select few who rise up to the occasion and move forward to try and succeed no matter how many tries it takes. By overcoming those difficult moments in life, it gives a person a sense of accomplishment and pride and that alone is a beautiful thing.
Memory is one of the greatest gifts a person can have, even though they can cause people pain and bad memories occasionally. People will always have their good memories to look back on.
Failure can be a blessing depending on how a person looks at it. No one is fortunate enough to go through life without failure it is unavoidable. If you learn from your shortcomings you can come back stronger the next time. Every great individual, team, or group of people has experienced failure. My shortcomings my sophomore year of Basketball made me grow as a player and a person.
Failure isn’t always something you have control of or have the ability to predict. Failure seems to happen at the worst of times; however we need to accept it, because you cannot always win. My greatest failure would be tearing my anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), my junior year in a lacrosse game, through no fault of my own in which my body physically failed me, but it truly changed my aspect of life in multiple ways.
Throughout my life I have failed many things. Some of them were big things and others were minor ones. A great example of a failure I had was my first wrestling match. I started participating in wrestling my sophomore year of high school, and I had no idea n how to do anything. I would go to the wrestling room every day after school to practice and try my best to get better. The practices were not easy, it required a lot of mental and physical strength to be successful at it. When I started I was having a hard time getting used to it because my mental strength was not as strong as my physical strength. Eventually I got used to it and practices became easier. I started to get my confidence during the practice wrestling matches we had with fellow
Failure does not stop me At one point in my life, I experienced true failure. It was the summer before my freshman year in high school, I tried out for the Junior Varsity football team for the first time. Despite not missing any practices, saying and believing that I wanted to make the team more than anyone, my coach told me I was too small and could not protect myself against the other players on the field. I lost my jersey.
There has been many successes and failures in the history of sports, soccer in particular, throughout the United States. Professional soccer in the Untied States has never been as popular as it is overseas, due to many contributing factors. Firstly, “America developed without creating a successful or enduring socialist party and the institutions created by its working classes are among the weakest in the Western world” (Goldblatt, 96). Sports like baseball, football, and basketball completely dominated the US market because they were “working class” sports, unlike soccer which was a middle-class sport. Secondly, “many features of American life— sport and education in particular— have lacked any kind of central national direction or organization
Failure is an obstacle everyone faces during their lifetime. Everyone deals with failure differently. Choosing to succeed and not accepting failure allows me to fulfill my life’s dreams. How I choose to deal with failure in my life will determine my life’s success. Failing does not mean that I will not succeed.
I couldn't believe it, I just couldn't. “I FINALLY DID IT!!!” No I meant “WE FINALLY DID IT!!!” 1 HOUR BEFORE It was a nice sunny day.
Everyone in life experiences failure. It can affect people positively or negatively and that all depends on how they react to the experience. If one lets their failure overcome their dreams, it will lead them in the wrong path. But if one views their failures as a motive to succeed and grow, then they are on their way to becoming successful. For me, I let my failures in life help build onto my character and define the person I am today. My childhood injury is my example as I let this moment affect the outcome of my dreams I had then.
As a child, I never felt that failure meant as much as it does now that I am older. Unfortunately in high school, it is not as simple as tying my shoes; my shortcomings stand out. The phrases that had a major impact on my life Sophomore year were "we believe you belong on JV this year" and "your grandpa committed suicide". Though these sayings are two completely different topics, they have one thing in common, failure. I failed to make Varsity basketball.
Failure happens when something isn't successful. Failure is a thing that all people can learn from. Failures can be used as lessons so that the failure will not be repeated again. One of my greatest failures in life that I've experienced and learned from would be from the time of my first grade year. I didn’t take school seriously when I was in the first grade and made terrible grades. After this failure, it made change the outlook on school and I started trying. I learned that I need to take school serious or else I will do bad in school. This failure lead to success in school and I started making good grades which will help later on in life.