Personal Narrative: My First Experience Of Failure
Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it." - Mia Hamm. Failure happens to everyone. The only thing that separates people who succeed from those who don't is, the understanding of failure. However we cannot be successful in everything we partake in.
My first experience of failure was my freshman year of high school. I joined the debate team. I had no intentions of ever losing a debate because it couldn't be that hard to argue. My teacher signed me up for a tournament over the weekend. I practiced hard and gathered a lot of evidence. I came into the tournament with a cocky attitude. I believed that day I was “invincible”. That day I experienced failure like no other. I lost
My first experience of failure was my freshman year of high school. I joined the debate team. I had no intentions of ever losing a debate because it couldn't be that hard to argue. My teacher signed me up for a tournament over the weekend. I practiced hard and gathered a lot of evidence. I came into the tournament with a cocky attitude. I believed that day I was “invincible”. That day I experienced failure like no other. I lost