My Greatest Failure
My greatest failure is all the opportunities I miss because I am not in school. I get sick a lot and because of this, I miss a lot of school. When I get sick, I stay sick for quite awhile. Because I get sick so often and miss so much school, I miss out on what is supposed to be the greatest years of my life.
In ninth grade I went to school twenty eight days. I missed everything from homecoming to foreign language week. It isn’t that if I had been in school I would have been extremely excited about either of those things; it’s that I missed them altogether.
I have tried to stay healthy but no matter what I do, I end up missing something really cool. For example, my dad was going to take me to see Lion King on Broadway last year, but I was too sick to go. I was so sad even though I had already seen it before. But because I was too sick to go, some other little kid, who never would have gotten to see it if it weren’t for my being sick, got to go and see it.
So, even though I get sick, miss a great deal of school and miss out on things I really want to do, in the end I will probably turn out a better person because of it. I don’t have to deal with peer pressure or have a lot of school spirit. I get to concentrate on the important things, like my grades, my friends, and my future.
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