Going To Failure In High School
As I sat in my first block class on that day and obtained the "A" honor roll certificate I was so proud of myself and had a strong feeling of success. I realized that others would mooch around and just get by, that is not what I wanted to do. Success was my only option, I wouldn’t settle for anything other than success, and being a corporate accountant was the goal I was setting for myself even with the many hardships that were going to come with it. Nothing inspires success more than failure. I never quite understood what it felt like to fail until I received my first failing grade. I studied so hard for that test and I still failed. I was thinking about that failing grade for a couple day, and I just couldn’t quite get over it. When I saw the other people in my class had failed also, it didn’t seem to upset them. They
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acted as if they could care less if they had passed or failed.
I know what was going through their head, “it’s just high school”. Getting that failing grade made me realize that I needed to strive for success in everything I do. Even if it was only high school, I was not going to fail ever again. If I had an uncaring attitude about failure in high school I was most likely going to have a careless attitude about college and in other things in my life. Failure is the easiest route to take, but you get nothing out of failing. I know success would be worth working for. Studying was going to be a major key to achieving many things in my life. I needed to get in the habit of studying because that was going to be the path to
success for the rest of high school, and then to college. While all of the other students in my class were talking about the party from last night, that was never really what I liked to do. I had figured out early that I cared way too much about my future to go try to impress someone at a party. I played soccer and ran track in high school, so I went to school at 8 a.m. and usually didn’t get home until nine or ten on week days. So it was hard for me to study and do homework on such a tight schedule, but I made it work.
acted as if they could care less if they had passed or failed.
I know what was going through their head, “it’s just high school”. Getting that failing grade made me realize that I needed to strive for success in everything I do. Even if it was only high school, I was not going to fail ever again. If I had an uncaring attitude about failure in high school I was most likely going to have a careless attitude about college and in other things in my life. Failure is the easiest route to take, but you get nothing out of failing. I know success would be worth working for. Studying was going to be a major key to achieving many things in my life. I needed to get in the habit of studying because that was going to be the path to
success for the rest of high school, and then to college. While all of the other students in my class were talking about the party from last night, that was never really what I liked to do. I had figured out early that I cared way too much about my future to go try to impress someone at a party. I played soccer and ran track in high school, so I went to school at 8 a.m. and usually didn’t get home until nine or ten on week days. So it was hard for me to study and do homework on such a tight schedule, but I made it work.