Mistakes And Failures In Middle School

Mistakes and Failures are Lessons “In life, the things that go wrong are often the very things that lead to other things going right.” - Arianna Huffington. Middle school is like Mount Everest, where you have to train and work hard to reach the goal, high school, yet there are checkpoints along the way. Each grade in middle school is another checkpoint and you can only reach the next point by not giving up, no matter how hard the task at hand is. Not giving up can be hard, but my journey through middle school taught me that in order to succeed and reach the top, I needed to be okay with my mistakes and failures. First, I want to thank all of the teachers who taught me to learn from my mistakes and move on. It’s hard for me to write essays
Hey, I mean you all just tell me if you hadn’t felt that way on the first day of middle school too! Before starting middle school, I had goals in mind. One, that I would never get a tardy, and strive to get straight A’s, but, there was the time for that day to come! I scrambled to my locker trying to open it but the combination numbers got mixed up! Right when I get my locker open, boom, the second bell rings! I did not just hear that go on! Quickly I ran into class, only to find out, I was tardy! My goal was crushed and I was sad. But later, I realised I had to learn from my mistakes and press on towards the goal. Having even a lot more failures during sixth grade like grades dropping slowly, I found out that the hardest task for me was writing long essays. I normally didn’t do so well. From fifth grade of just writing one paragraph, to writing five paragraph essays in sixth grade! Even this speech was hard for me to write! Yet, with many mistakes on my essays, I learned from each essay I wrote. Improving each one, getting better and learning that I had to take my mistakes and use them to