1) Over the course of any semester, students are bound to fail at something. I am going to tell you about a time this semester when I failed at something. I was enrolled in a class this past semester that I did not find very difficult. I was doing really well in the class until I had some personal medical issues rise up. I was no longer able to walk to class every day to go to class so I had to drop it. I felt like I failed myself because I had to medically withdraw from a class that was not very difficult.
2) I learned that not everything is going to go your way in life. I have always been a big believer that everything happens for a reason, so I feel like the major lesson that I will have learned from this failure experience will reveal itself later down the road.
3) I do not think anyone enjoys failing something, however it is something that everyone experiences and teaches them lessons. For me, I deal with failure internally. It eats at me for a while but eventually I come to terms with my failures and I try to come up with a way to avoid failing again. Everyone copes with their failure differently, but for me this is the best strategy. I do not think this class changed my perspective on failure because everything this class teaches about failure is something I already knew. Failure is a good thing, as long as you can learn from your mistakes.
Hi Max,
ReplyDeleteI appreciate your bravery to admit you had to drop a class, since often there's a negative stigma attached to dropping a course. Personal failure is sometimes the hardest because we force ourselves to believe that the problem is us and not our surroundings. Each failure is a lesson, and by default, not a complete failure. There will always be something good to come out of a dark time.
Hey Max,
ReplyDeleteI am so sorry to hear that a medical issue of yours resulted in a failure. As annoying and inconvenient as it must have been to have to drop the class and have to retake it in the future, you are right that everyone experiences failures. As much as failures may suck, there is always something to learn from.