This I Believe

"Learn From The Past"
By Enrique Delgado 

I believe that we should always learn from our mistakes and failures. If we didn't learn from our mistakes we made in the past, there wouldn't be change. We would be repeating the same actions that lead us towards failure. The worst mistakes that you made before can teach you the most. Just see how it changed me.

When I was younger, I remember the time when I almost flunked the entire third grade. There was sweat dripping from my hair and my neck, the sun was burning everyone on the street with its intense heat. It was the usual summer day. 

It was close to the end of the school year. Everyone in class was daydreaming about what they were doing in the summer. Some had plans to travel out of state, others had plans to even travel out of the country! I was just mainly focusing on going to six flags in the summer. I had never gone there before at the time, however, going to six flags was now a dream.

One of my teachers had given me a letter to give to my parents. He had told me to stay after school as he wanted to talk to me about my grades, that's when my heart stopped. I had forgotten to check on my class work to see if I forgot to turn in anything. I realized I planned my summer vacation just for nothing.

My teacher had said that he noticed I wasn't really paying attention a lot as the end of the school year was getting closer. I couldn't blame him, he had a point. I wasn't paying attention on what we were learning about, didn't turn in my work, etc. 

When I arrived to my house, the faces of my parents went from being positive to one of those faces where you know something terrible is going to happen. After seeing that face, I had to change how I acted. They were disappointed in me but I had managed to improve my grades from Ds to some Bs and a little bit of Cs. This was the most difficult task I had accomplished as it took away a lot of time, it stressed me out so much.

Believing in that we should always learn from our mistakes and failures changed me in alot as I went from a student who payed little to no attention in school to a student who always pays attention in school. It made more focus on my schoolwork and changed the negative hobby of not doing my work into something better. That is why I believe that we should always learn from our mistakes and failures.