Celebrating Failure

          Since the beginning of the semester I had a goal in mind which was to stop eating junk food 100% of the time I was going to have a meal. I told myself I would not be able to eat anything ranging from pizza to burger king until the end of the year, however this has been pretty difficult to do. Even though I have lowered the amount exponentially I still have had pizza 3 times this semester which in my eyes is a failure because I said I wouldn’t have any until the end of the year. Last year I would eat pizza or some type of junk several times a week but it got way out of hand which was why I had to make such a drastic decision I still failed at. I learned that even though I failed I got farther than I would have than if I never had failed because that would have meant I would have kept on putting junk in my body. I think you need failure to grow in areas you have never explored before and from it comes experience which is very necessary in my opinion to become a successful person. I handle failure mainly more emotionally than behaviorally because I really kill myself about it in my own head which in some way does influence my behavior to be more strict about my conditions because I never want to feel like I failed again. This class taught me that I must embrace my failures to get the experiences necessary to reach my goals and that if I don’t try then it would be impossible to get anywhere.