The Experience Of Life

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The Life Learning Experience; Change Life as we know it is nothing more than a learning experience. From the time that we were born till the time that we die, we are learning each and every day. We are learning about change, learning how to adjust, learning how to deal with problems, learning about ourselves and much more. In my epic seventeen years on this earth I have learned many things; how to deal with anger, adversity, and to deal with change to name a few. When I was younger I always used to think the world revolved around me and as I grew older I quickly realized that it did not. I have parents that demand the very best out of me, out of everything that I do. So that the more that I accomplished in my life, the more that I felt the world had revolved around me. My scholastic records all the way up until high school were nothing but straight A’s. I was always the best player on any athletic team I participated in. Popularity was me; everybody in the school knew who I was. My confidence couldn’t be any higher entering high school. Through the earlier years of my life, I had learned how to succeed. My first report card of my freshman year comes out and I received a C in Spanish 1. The feeling was almost unbearable; I have never received anything lower than a B in my entire life. In my school your report cards are given to you in your homeroom, so for the entire day I was the quietest I had ever been. In my eyes in that moment I had believed I failed in every way possible. Then after giving the report card to my parents I felt that I had failed even more. The disappointing look on their faces stood with me for the rest of my freshman year. I couldn’t deal with the failure because I had never learned how to deal with failure. Failure was a new thing for me at that point so I had no idea how to deal with it and the more that I failed the worse it
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