The Importance Of Failure

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There have been many occasions in my life where I have experienced failure.
However, those failures taught me to persevere and succeed. I can recount one of those occasions where I experienced failure back in middle school. I recall back in eighth grade, I tried out for the basketball team. I had a very strong compassion for basketball ever since I watched my first basketball game when I was eight years old. It was the NBA finals and I became in love with Kobe Bryant's mentality. Even though they lost the finals, he became my idol. That day I had decided to become a professional basketball player and become the greatest to ever play the game. I started playing basketball in school from fourth grade, and I had made the team every single time. I was almost always the captain of the team every year and if I wasn't I made it my
In seventh grade, I was the captain and we went all the way to the semi finals before losing to our rivals. I was pretty emotional after the game; I promised myself that I would not let my team fail ever again. That off-seasonI put in the work but something tragic happened. Our apartment caught on fire so we had to move prompting me to switch schools. However, I didn't let that setback bring me down. I worked even harder to bring my game to the next level. So I went to my new school confident that I am the best player. I was eager to meet the new competition. During tryouts I was confident that I would comfortably make the team. I knew that I was one of the, if not, the best player during tryouts. The next day I skimmed through the sheet that listed who made the basketball team and my name was not on there. I was astonished! Did the coaches not like me? I felt like a knife had just stabbed my heart. The result of my failure

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