Final Writing 1
Throughout my life, I have always been underestimated by my talent and by who I am as a person. I've always been a humble person, especially when it comes to something that I know I'm good at. I'm very perfectionist as a person, which is good but bad at the same time because of how much you have to go through in life. It's always been really hard for me to accept that I failed or to accept that I'm doing something wrong because of how carefully I want to be with everything I do. My entire life has been really hard because I am a negative person and I struggle with motivation when someone humiliates me, or someone doubts about me and it's really hard for me to succeed because all I think is negative. When I was young, and I started my career as a volleyball player, I struggled a lot. I've always been pretty short compared to the other players that played my position. To be able to play my position, you either had to be tall or jump really high, and I had neither of those. Of course, when you're at a young age doing sports, your height and your vertical doesn't matter. Well, I never paid attention to those details until I kept getting older. When I was 11 years old, I still played the same position, I made the number one team of my age at the volleyball club I used to play. I was so happy because of how hard I worked on the tryouts, and finally I was able to make the best team. During the first tournament that I had, my coach put me in but as soon as I made one mistake, he took me out, and after that, he never played me again. I was frustrated and mad obviously because of how poorly his trust towards me was. That was one of the rejections I had throughout my childhood. Another one was at my old school when I was 12, I still played the same position, I was an outside that only measured 5'3 feet tall. My coach sat me on the bench and never played me because he thought that I was not good at it. I started to get more and more frustrated, but I never quit because of how in love I was with the sport. After that year, I continued to work hard because I knew my worth. Finally, when I was in 8th grade, I had a new coach, his name is Gilbert, he is one of the reasons why I am where I'm at right now. Even though I wasn't as tall, or I couldn't jump as high, I could play defense, but that was something I hadn't yet discovered about myself, and he helped me with that. He saw that the position I played was one of my weaknesses, and instead of benching me he decided to try new things with me, and he started to practice me playing defense. Thanks to that, I switched my position and my doors at my sport began to open more and more because of how much potential I had playing defense. This taught me that just because you're not as talented as something doesn't mean you have to quit, it means that you need to get out of your comfort zone.
In class, we read an article written by John McNally, and I relate to it a lot with the story I just told. The reason why, it's because he kept getting rejected by professional people, in my case I also got rejected because professional people like my coaches never believed in me. John McNally's dad never believed in him, and the things he said about his work were negative comments. In my opinion, all my life, I've thought that succeeding by mistake was only learning from your mistakes and obtaining a lesson. Once I began to think more in depth, reading about it, listening to videos that talked about it, I started to have more knowledge about the real meaning of it. Succeeding by mistake is more than what you think, by making mistakes you can grow as a person and face your fears, the negative comments can also work as feedbacks to make us realize what works and what doesn't, and lastly it helps us humans to learn that the word mistake doesn't only mean something negative and that by admitting our own mistakes we can succeed as people and can help us get in touch with our commitments.
I chose this class because I had a feeling that I could be a better person by learning about the meaning of failures and success. Last semester was a semester that I will never forget, not because it was my first semester at college, but because I made a lot of mistakes and bad decisions. When it was time to pick classes, and I had to pick my FS class, I went one by one and read the description. When I read the topic of the class which was "Succeeding by mistakes" it grabbed my attention very fast. Thanks to this course, I'm becoming a better person and I learn to accept that mistakes are not bad, and that they just help you to grow as a human.
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