Overcoming Failure Research Paper

Often times failure takes a toll on one’s self. It may bring down one’s mentality and willingness to keep trying. In my 16 years of living, I have experienced success and failure. As a child failing would bring me down, but over time I began to realize that I can learn something from my failures and use it to improve myself.

Last year in June, I was a freshman in high school getting ready for my finals. I was most nervous about my literature final because I was having trouble getting good grades. For the majority of my classes, I aimed to get an ‘A’, but in literature, I just tried to maintain my average grade which was a ‘B’. The final test focused on a novel, so I were allowed to use the text in my book as evidence for our essays. In preparation for the test, I made notes for myself and annotated my book with sticky notes all day and night.

After hours of preparing for my test, I decided to go to sleep late at night. In the morning of that day, I went to take my test. Since there were several prompts assigned for the test, I rushed to get my work complete before an ninety minutes passed by. By the end of the class, I ended up not finishing my test but I knew that I tried my best before the test and during. I knew my grade would not be excellent because my test was incomplete, but I

Knowing that the first letter a school sends home over the summer is the report card, I nervously teared open the end of the letter. After pulling out and unfolding my report card, I reacted with shock and disappointment. On my report card that had shown the result of my hard work, determination, and effort, I saw that I was a few numbers away from failing my final. I had worked so hard to do well or at least get a decent. At first, I was angry that I worked so hard for a horrible grade that people get when they do not try. I later realized that sometimes I need to accept failure in order to grow as a