Personal Statement Of Failure

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Fatimah Shoatz
Personal Statement
Cabrini University

Failure seems to be held on a higher pedestal than success does. People tend to shout out their failures more than their success. We as humans are afraid of failure we try our best to avoid it. But the truth is nothing was ever achieved without failure coming first. Regardless of ones goals failure will always be the hurdle of life that we just have to jump over.
Since a young age it was embedded within me that failing could never be a option. I remember when I was in the 12th grade and I had received my first D on a test. I was literally devastated and at a lost for words. I swore my chances to get into a good school was shot and the school year didn’t even end yet.
I had always thought getting bad grades would mean I was failing my parents. They were the main supporters in my life so I thought seeing them upset would end my chances for everything. I lived most of my life making my parents proud so them seeing me fail with a D was the scariest thought of my life. …show more content…

For a student that was only used to getting A’s and B’s this was bad. I had realized when I got to 12th grade I really lost focus, and being 16 in the 12th grade was not an easy thing. I knew that I had received the D for me not studying and being super unprepared.
I had two different options for myself though. I could either sit there ponder and feel upset about getting the D, or I could dust myself off and try again. I realized something important: even though I tried to dust myself off I’ve always remembered that big fat D I had on my test. My grades were far more important to me at that time than anything

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