Personal Narrative: My Experience Failure

Prompt: Recount an incident or time when you experienced failure, how did it affect you, and what lessons did you learn?

Imagine six months without a door, phone, TV and computer. It is not fun at all but now that I look back it is a funny story to tell. To start from the beginning I have always strived to be the best daughter, student and athlete to make my parents proud. Until I reached the age of 15 when I became a sophomore and got a little off track and started to go downhill. Not only did my grades start dropping but I started to lose respect for my parents and did not care about what they thought. I was a typical teenager that got caught up in the wrong crowd and doing all the wrong things and I did not have a care in the world. I
The season was almost over and I got to play the last few games and I remember what it felt like to sit on the bench and watch my teammates play without me. My grades improved but I could not make up the time I missed from softball but it did teach me a lot about consistency, trust, honesty and much more. I knew my mom guys were just trying to do what was right for me and now that I look back at it I realized how much I put them through and it all could have been avoided but it was a lesson in learning for me. It gave me a different perspective on the way I looked at things and it was all to my mom guys. When I used to think about school I would think it was a waste of time but now it is very important to me and not only because you need good grades to get into college, because it will only benefit me as an individual and it is up to me on how I want to live my life and if you work hard in school now it will only make your life easier in the future because if I followed the path that I was on I would end up nowhere in life and I think that is the lesson my parents were trying to teach me all along and if it wasn’t for how