Personal Narrative: The Drum Majorette

I’ve been a majorette since I was five years old, it’s a long time I know, and through the years failure has been like an annoying friend that you want to go away, but you are to polite to ask it to leave. No one is perfect, and everyone messes up are two common phrases that go with failure, but who wants a consolation prize of meaningless words when you could have won at nationals? No one. In my career as a majorette I’ve had bad competitions and I’ve had bad years and sometimes it really gets to me and puts me in a mood, but I never quit practicing. One year in particular I went to The Drum Majorettes of America’s National competition and I made dead last place in my division. That really hurts, and it made me angry that I had fallen so far