Essay On Failure Is Simply The Opportunity To Begin Again

Henry Ford once said, “ Failure is Simply the Opportunity to Begin again, this Time more Intelligently”

Imagine yourself in the 4th grade again, a time where you didn’t really have much to worry about and where the work wasn’t to hard but it had its challenges. As being the youngest child of three, one older sister and one older brother, I had a lot of expectations with me when going into this grade, with my older siblings being loved by every teacher and getting good grades. But I wasn’t really the same in both ways, being a really disrespectful student and generally not caring about grades things such as that. The only thing I really cared about was if I was cool around the people I was hanging out with. To this day I still regret my lack of respect and attention to class, it haunts me in much of my decisions that I make now and that was 8 years ago. It plays like a broken record in my head over and over, even times when I think of how I could of changed that time of my life. I still remember when being called in on a sunny Saturday, just the bringing of spring, with mom to speak with the teacher about school, and knowing my self I thought it was another parent-teacher conference just as boring as the rest. To talk about how good I was doing or so I thought. I was standing in the hallway just awaiting the moment when my mom will walkthrough the door and say that I was doing

My mom responded with “you’re not going to be going with your friends to the 5th grade you are staying in the 4th grade”. It was then that it just hit me like a train hitting a car. That I was not going to the same place my friends were going and staying where I was. I couldn’t do anything but just burst into tears and cry. It was from this moment in my life that failure didn’t hit as hard as anything else in my life. This moment in my life almost acts like a nightmare that I know will never go away, stuck with me forever, not going