Withou Without Failure

Possession was the one thing on everyone’s mind. Time was evaporating, the other team and their fans started to get optimistic. The buzzer announced the end of the competition and the roar from our opponents deafened cries from our team and our fans. We had lost the first game for our program in fourteen years.

One time I came across failure. It all started when playing in a baseball game for Serra High School. Up to that game we had been undefeated in league play. As the game moved along it got more and more intense. Every batter and runner on base you could tell both teams were completely focused on winning that game.

We lost our first game of the season. That game chanleged us all. Would continue to stare at the dirt or reach for the stars. We continued to strugle as team. It was my turn to take charge as a leader for this team, but I letting everything just go bye.

The painful feeling of defeat. I could see the pure anguish in the eye of my teammates. I knew that we had lost. I knew it before the officials announced the results. During the ceremony, I felt numb and disappointed.

My Hero’s Journey A hero’s journey consists of the separation, initiation, and return of a hero. This is the main idea of a hero, but many people have journeys that consist all three and are not heroes. In Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, Odysseus is a perfect example of the literary hero’s journey. When Odysseus left his home, all odds were against him to return.

Despite the newspapers and previews saying we would not contend for the state title that year, I kept in my head that anything could happen. Going into the year I told our team “lets focus on what we can do to improve, and not worry about anyone else”. At the beginning, other teams were too strong for our inexperienced runners to compete with, but we didn’t change the focus. Practice after practice, I made sure we were doing everything we could to be at our best for the end of the year. I didn’t care what other teams were doing because we had no control over that.

We blew teams out. We got blown out. Despite some early struggles, we were able to advance to the semifinals, but lost in a thriller. Even though we lost, it was the best game we played by far; the kids learned to play together as one team. The season was always filled with excitement and anticipation, one play after the

This is an event that all people will run into at some point or another. For me, my most defining failures would be in my early childhood. I was never good at sports, but

The experience alone rather becomes an opportunity for you to grow. I LET IT GO! – learn letting go of failures. At most, this final step is the most important since it enables yourself releasing all the negative energies you have had from your failure. Focus upon the positives or the lessons, and move on forward,

My desideratum is that you have to lose to know how to win. Personally, this helped me to realize that you can't succeed without going through hardships. That life isn't always just a stroll through the park. Actually I find it to be quite the opposite.

I came back with a team that was craving a championships and a positive season because we were a good team this year and we all believed we could make it all the way as champions. Our soccer team overall record was 7-7-1, We achieved only one goal that year and that was to have a positive season but we didn't achieve our second goal which was to be champions. We could have been able to make it to the playoffs but we had students that were ineligible when we had crucial games to play and ended up losing those crucial games. If we had no players ineligible we would have achieved our second goal and possibly would have been champions of the Tri Valley league. Senior night which was our last game of the season we played against skyline which if you didn't know were the champions last year and killed us last year.

As a baseball player failure is a natural part of my life. The best hitters in history failed a staggering 65 percent of the time and at times their rate of failure was much higher. Every player experiences a period where they seem to fail in every attempt they take; some have long periods of failure, while others have short periods of failure. I recently experienced a long stretch where it felt like nonstop failure on my part while playing baseball. It started first as not being able to get a hit, then progressed to striking out in almost every at bat.

This game taught me that i can 't reflect on the unchangeable and move to the future. Reflection can be an awful thing moving on making your mind just feel clean and into a new state where you can make your dreams a vision. Basking in the glory days can 't be the only thing you can do for you lose or broken memory. Moving from there was the best thing that could have done for my career in baseball and after I moved on we won our next tournament and I forgot it all.

Golf is my thing. I play to have time to myself to think, I play with family and friends for fun, and I play to hone my skills and be the best possible contender I can be when it comes to the competition side. So when I think about my personal biggest failure that I can recall, I would have to say golf is involved. My team at school is very good, we have heated tryouts every year just to make the team. As a freshman our golf team won state and I feel like that really set the tone for what was expected of the rest of us for our high school years.

This essay explores how failure acts as a catalyst for personal growth and achievement. Firstly, failures provide valuable lessons that cannot be obtained through easy victories alone. Little mistakes frequently lead to large ones. Considering even the tiniest decisions have power, it is critical that we pay attention to the integrity of the decisions we make every day.