Personal Narrative: Varsity Football

Everyday people strive for perfection, but the truth is that no one will ever achieve it. Within every task, challenge or achievement, failure is present. Most fear the possibility of failure because weaknesses are brought out and people feel vulnerable. On the other hand I witnessed a learning aspect from failure, and have a new understanding of it. Varsity football was where I faced a large amount of failure, but in turn learned many lessons. Going into the Varsity season, I had high expectations for my team and believed we were a championship team. My team freshman year went undefeated and sophomore year we also had a decent record. Along with the success in our past year we had had athletic, strong players, some of who played with the
First, I realized that I cannot expect things in life. I am not entitled to have good things happen to me, I myself have to work for success if I really desire it. I should not have expected that the football team was going to be good; instead I should have practiced hard to become a good football team. Another lesson was that when a group fails they come together and develop a bond to achieve the failed goal. Throughout the failure, my team became more of a family. Each team member had the others back, and also encouraged the other not to be afraid of failure. We looked at our brotherhood as a fist. When all the fingers were closed, and we were all in, we were strong like a punch. If one or more of the fingers were not closed, we were vulnerable and weak, and if we punched we would break a finger, representing a piece of the team. Lastly, my coach said something to the team that changed my entire mind set of failure. He said to us that “Failure is the fertilizer for success.” At that point I realized that to get better I would have to fail at one point. When the team and I figured out these aspects of failure we went on to win the playoffs, and became champions through