Finding Success In Failure
Finding Success In Failure
Can failure be a good influence on our lives? Sure, success is important, but failure can be just as or even more important than success. As a current high school student, I’ve experienced many successes and failures in my life. The successes have been great, but it is the failures that have taught me the greatest lessons. When you fail at something, you’re forced to analyze what you did wrong. You are forced to think about what you could have done differently so it wouldn’t have gone wrong. We ask ourselves this question almost every time we fail. Why is it that the failures are more thought-provoking than the successes? This semester, I experienced failure in a way that I never thought possible. One technical failure changed my life in a way that I will never forget.
I am a competitive swimmer. I train twice a day, every day, six days a week. I am no stranger to failure. From adding time to flawed turns, I’ve had my fair share of mistakes in the pool. This year, however, failure reached my life in a new way. This was supposed to be my year. My senior year, my last year as a high school swimmer. I had never been faster. My times were continually dropping and I was already far ahead of where I was last year. Until the day I royally messed up.
