This I Believe by David G.
I believe that you have to fail in order to succeed. With every failure comes
knowledge on how to deal with it. When you learn how to overcome that failure is when
you will learn how to succeed in life and become successful. You can learn from others'
mistakes but nothing can teach you better than by making those mistakes yourself.
When you fail at something, you cannot just quit at it and never try again, but instead,
you have to learn and grow from that failure.
I believe failure builds character and strength. When I was younger, I could never
ride a dirt bike. I would try and try every day and fail a lot. This failure motivated me to
keep trying and be able to ride that dirt bike that I had. After many tries and countless
days, I finally got on and was able to ride it. This made me very happy and made me
feel that I had accomplished something. I kept on riding my dirt bike until I got pretty
good at it and now it is something I enjoy doing.
I have even been able to teach some younger people how to ride a dirt bike and I
can tell that it makes them happy too. When you succeed at something that you would
otherwise not be good at brings a type of accomplished feeling. If you never try anything
new you will most likely never fail at anything.
Another example of failure is when I just started wrestling and got beat over and
over again. I was getting very frustrated and almost wanted to quit. I practiced what I
was doing wrong and I tried to fix it. After many practices, I thought I had learned what I
was doing wrong and was confident that I would win. I was very wrong and I got pinned
the next match I wrestled. This did not make me quit but it made me want to try even
harder. I practiced harder than I ever had and I asked the coaches what I could do. The
next match I wrestled I pinned the kid in the first period. This made me realize that all of
my work had paid off and if I did not fail I would not have put in that work. This shows
that failure leads to success if you keep on going and try harder.
You cannot let someone else's success make you feel like you are not
accomplishing anything. Those people that are succeeding now have gone through
some failures and that is how they became the person that they are today. When you
just start something you are going to fail at it no matter what you do so do not try to get
past it. Failure simply means that there is something to be learned and the only way to
learn is by trying it again. This is why I believe that you have to first fail in order to
succeed.
