Mistakes and what we can learn from them
How we grow from mistakes
If you've ever took a complicated test in school, then you know how profoundly frustrating it must be to fail one even after studying for like several hours, because, let's be honest; unless your just one of those students who are so amazingly talented, that you seem to pass all of your tests with flying colors despite only studying for three hours while practicing for soccer, doing homework for biology class and playing Fortnight, chances are, there's bound to be at least one question that you're gonna miss. Unless, you know, it's something as easy as a spelling test. In that case, it's almost impossible to get anything wrong because, you know, tests like those are just too plain simple. Even though that's not exactly my point, I'll get to it later. In the meantime, let me show you what my point really is, what
I'm actually trying to get at.
I've always considered myself to be a pretty good student. I wouldn't say that I was the best though (Okay, so maybe I was sometimes, specifically from seventh to eighth grade when I was on the A/B honor roll and from ninth to tenth grade when my grades were somewhat decent to some extent in some way, shape, or form. But anyway, the rest of high school was another story...). It wasn't like I was lazy or anything. I was actually far from it. While all of my friends went out to the movies, I was studying. While my friends went ice skating, I was studying. While the rest of the middle schoolers were going out, dating and all that, you want to know what I was doing? Playing Wii Sports and with my friends, of course. Oh, that and studying. While everyone went on a class trip to carowinds, I went with them because no one could tell me no so why not? We were old enough to make our own choices, right? For the most part, I would fail at getting straight A's. I try to get my grades right the next year, but I would fail again. And, that really got me thinking. I just thought to myself "why do I keep doing this when I know I don't like it?" And, I think that's the point I'm trying to get at. I'm sure that many of you have thought the same thing at one time or another. If any of you have thought the same thing, I'm here to tell you this; maybe these mistakes aren't so bad after all. They're not a bad thing for one very important reason; mistakes can teach us to be more creative and look for alternatives. If you're someone who's struggling to keep their grades up in school and have a feeling that you should be somewhere else, then you'd be surprised to know that you may be right. The truth is, our emotions and intuition work and act very much like our guardians; they only want what's best for us. If there's some activity that you enjoy doing, I honestly don't see why you shouldn't go after it. The truth is, success really is 33.3% passion, 33.3% work, and 33.3% determination. So go out and follow your dreams. You might be pleasantly surprised to find that you made the right choice
I've always considered myself to be a pretty good student. I wouldn't say that I was the best though (Okay, so maybe I was sometimes, specifically from seventh to eighth grade when I was on the A/B honor roll and from ninth to tenth grade when my grades were somewhat decent to some extent in some way, shape, or form. But anyway, the rest of high school was another story...). It wasn't like I was lazy or anything. I was actually far from it. While all of my friends went out to the movies, I was studying. While my friends went ice skating, I was studying. While the rest of the middle schoolers were going out, dating and all that, you want to know what I was doing? Playing Wii Sports and with my friends, of course. Oh, that and studying. While everyone went on a class trip to carowinds, I went with them because no one could tell me no so why not? We were old enough to make our own choices, right? For the most part, I would fail at getting straight A's. I try to get my grades right the next year, but I would fail again. And, that really got me thinking. I just thought to myself "why do I keep doing this when I know I don't like it?" And, I think that's the point I'm trying to get at. I'm sure that many of you have thought the same thing at one time or another. If any of you have thought the same thing, I'm here to tell you this; maybe these mistakes aren't so bad after all. They're not a bad thing for one very important reason; mistakes can teach us to be more creative and look for alternatives. If you're someone who's struggling to keep their grades up in school and have a feeling that you should be somewhere else, then you'd be surprised to know that you may be right. The truth is, our emotions and intuition work and act very much like our guardians; they only want what's best for us. If there's some activity that you enjoy doing, I honestly don't see why you shouldn't go after it. The truth is, success really is 33.3% passion, 33.3% work, and 33.3% determination. So go out and follow your dreams. You might be pleasantly surprised to find that you made the right choice
after all.
