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Personal Narrative: My Greatest Failure
I had a lot of failures in my short lifetime. Some of the failures I have done have done a lot of good for me. I am a person that likes to do a lot of things and with a lot of things to do; there is a lot of failures that comes with it. The biggest thing I like to do is play basketball. With basketball a lot of the greats had found failure before they became the biggest hero in sports. This essay is about things I have failed at and how they turned into success moments.
The first thing I can remember is when I wanted to be the biggest pro basketball player there is in the future. I use to wake up in the morning and go for runs. I use to go outside and play for hours every single day and when it’s not summer, I couldn’t wait to go home so I can drop my bag at the door
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You can’t just go in the game expecting to do well if you haven’t put the time or the heart into it. The game takes a lot of your time and if you have a job or a big schedule, then you might as well not even try to play. Also it’s a game to show how big of an appetite for success you have. All the work that you put into it will show in the game and the better you do the better you want to get. That builds an appetite for success not just only for basketball but for life also.
I stopped playing basketball is all. That was the worst feeling in the whole entire world.
Basketball was everything to me. I didn’t want to go a day without it but the schedule I had and the things I had to do I never could make time for it. I not only had to go days without looking at a basketball, I had to stop playing it in all. A game that I truly loved had to just stop so suddenly. One day I was in class and I just couldn’t stop thinking about it. I got a sheet of paper out and I started to draw out what was on my mind. I didn’t pay any attention to it but after I got done it looked pretty good, even someone behind me said that they loved it. I was thinking and started asking myself “is this

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