This I Believe by Aaron C.
I believe that you have to fail in order to succeed. What I mean by this statement
is that nobody just was an expert on their first try. It takes time to learn anything. You
can try and try but get nowhere at all, but if you do not keep trying how will you know if
you can be good at it if you do not try your hardest.
I am a very avid skier. I started when I was just four years old. My mom and dad
started me out with just gliding; now for a Four-year-old, that is a lot to ask because they
do not fully have control over their bodies. I fell a lot and got cold but that is just skiing. If
there is one thing that four-year-olds can control is that they can fall over lots of times.
What I remember when I was four was I just wanted to go fast and take naps and eat
the whole time. That scared my mom because she thought I was going to get in a
wreck, which I did but it was with a fence. I remember after I wrecked my mom asked
me if I was okay, and I was just a little scared to go back out, so we went home after
that. If you think a fence was going to stop me from learning, you were right for about a
week. Then I was back out on the slopes skiing or falling if that's what you would like to
call it. Once I learned it was like an every weekend thing, but then I started to wrestle
and that took up most of my weekends.
I still fall to this day. It is not like it was when I first started. It is a once-in-a-while
kind of thing, there have been many days that I have not fallen but you put me in the
park and it is like every lap. I am starting something new so I know that you must fail to
succeed, so I am going to keep at it until I get where I want to be. In this, I can ski the
mountain pretty well. I love going fast on my skis, the fastest I’ve gone while skiing
down Lower Wildcat, which is the steepest slope in Pennsylvania with a 72% downslope was 65 mph that was according to an app on my phone. My mom still will go
skiing with me to this day, but it is only for a run or two. My dad and I on the other hand
has not skied in many years. He just does not have the will to go anymore. In skiing, I
have learned that failure is the only thing that can lead to success.
