Personal Narrative: Highschool Failure

Failure was never an option, or so I thought. Growing up I tried extremely hard to avoid things I wasn’t good at, it didn’t matter if it was something as simple as cutting cheese. One day I was forced to change my mentality and come out of my comfort zone, when I did the results were unbelieveable. Going into highschool failure really was never an option, when I did things I tried my best.

I was always praised for my ability to make friends, communicate my points, and really be able to connect with others, so when I was asked to MC for an event I couldn’t pass the opportunity to show everyone that I really was great. I went into the event with very little preparation, and a great amount of confidence. When I got up to introduce the event I completely froze and found myself speechless. I stood on stage in front of 500 people for 5 minutes not knowing what to say. Luckily my friend who was on stage with me made up for my mistake and helped me get started. After the event, I went into my room and began to reflect. I told myself I failed and couldn’t do anything about it. I sat in my room for hours trying to relive that moment, but there was no going back.
My friend slapped my face screaming words I would forever live by, “ You may try and fail, you may try again and fail, but you only fail when you stop trying. Get back up and don’t let it weigh you down, you can only learn from failure. If you think you are at rock bottom it's all good because the only way you can go is up, I can help you let's go up together.” At that moment I realized that failure can provide learning opportunities, if I let it . I then tried to look back at my mistakes and the biggest one was not practicing for my