Essay Prompt 2: Recount an incident or time when you
experienced failure. How did it affect you, and what lessons did you learn?
Never Say Die
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Hwang Sung Jae
12V4
English Composition
25-17,
25-10. Overall 2-0.
A
gap between the two teams seemed so big to cross. Confronting the harsh
reality, one of the players burst into tears. He was the only 1st
grader chosen as a starting lineup of volleyball competition. Maybe the reason
for the tears was a feeling of emptiness and hopelessness. Although the reason
was unsure, there was one thing sure about him; he was not going to give up
because of only one failure.
A
year before, he was just a skinny student who did not like sweating or running.
It was an accident that he actually ended up in volleyball team. He enrolled
for the volleyball class by mistake. As he started to play volleyball, he fell
in love with the sport. He looked up for online lessons and spent most of his
time studying or playing volleyball. As input increased, output increased as
well. He soon became one of the most key players in the team. Due to an
accident, he got into the volleyball team and went out to the competition.
A
year passed from the competition. The boy who cried at the competition was a
leader of the team. He made great accomplishments. The team now had regular
practice times and had its own rules and formations when playing game. However,
fortune and misfortune happen together; a week before the competition, he
fractured his ribs. He had to make a choice. He had to choose between the
values of the great and the values of the self.
A week later, he
was riding on a bus. There were around twenty other people in the bus. He was
looking outside the window seeming to be full of thoughts. When the bus
stopped, he got off with his team and made his way into the gym. With a loud
fighting, the team prepared for the competition. The game was easy. His team
won 2 to 1. He chose to stay calm. He thought that behaving overly frivolously
in front of the other team was not right. His team celebrated the victory
simply and got ready for the next match. The next match was not that easy for his
team. Suffering from shortage of strength, his team started to lose focus. His
team’s victorious march was stopped. However, unlike a year before, he did not
cry. Although he was not satisfied at the result, he thought that the result
was fair. He knew that his team had found the weak spots that needed to be
fixed.
Another
year passed. Based on experiences from previous two years, he made a practice
schedule reinforcing the weak points. His team had practices much more solid
than before. This time, he promised to himself that he would never get hurt and
would focus on fundamentals. Now it seemed to him that the gap that once seemed
too big to cross is now just a hole of a fair size.
The boy who cried at the competition two years
ago is now preparing for the third trial. The experiences have given him many
lessons and opportunities. He will try his best as he has done so for the past
two years because he has learned that effort gives off the same amount of
output as input. He now knows that persistency is the basis for success. With
this knowledge, now the once tear dropping boy is preparing for the bigger
goal. He has made promises to himself that he will try his best at all the
goals he has set and will set. Most of all, he now promises that he will grasp
the chances that come accidentally.
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