Fear Free in the Face of Failure
Henry Ford once said, "Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." Failure has always been something that I have never functioned well with. Throughout nearly all of my life, I have rarely ever failed. That is, until this last month. These last 30 or so days have been jam-packed with stress, doubt, and (most of all) failure. Graduating from high school Suma Cum Laude, the president of three different organizations, nearly $10,000 in scholarships for the first year of college, and countless titles at the district, state, and national levels may seem like nothing but sunshine and rainbows. On the contrary, this has led to a terrible and completely unrealistic outlook on life. My countless successes caused me to believe that failure was less than me. I was untouchable. Well, I was sooo wrong. Little did I know that my world was about to be shook. My month of defeat began at 8:00 am, on a Thursday morning, in the high school library. P...