Success vs. Failure

It's inevitable. Everyone is going to fail at some point, and everyone is going to succeed at one point. It just happens, it's a part of life. It depends on how you react to these successes and failures that make you better able to cope. This semester has been full of ups and downs for me. To failing math because I have never been good at math, to doing horribly on a tutorial because my practice sessions were not sufficient enough. Yeah, it sucked to see the bad grades on my papers. Grades I had never seen in my life! But it made me want to try harder to get back on the right track. So I practiced more efficiently for my tutorials and my professor continues telling me that I've improved. I've worked harder in math and started giving the professor my undivided attention and brought my grade up. Maybe it's only a D now, but I'm passing. I also ran into a slump where I had gotten the lowest grade on an anthropology test, but I made a comeback in that class as well. Maybe I'm not at the level I'd like to be at yet, but I can only go up from where I am. Some of the successes I've had this semester include beginning to understand everything behind music theory. I had never taken a theory class in my life, so everything was so new to me. But I've gotten to a point where I understand everything, and the class has become more fun than a burden. It was only a burden when I felt stupid and like I was behind, now I feel pretty confident about my final. The point is, you can invest a lot of time into something and still fail, like I did with math. But you need to pick yourself up and try harder and great things can come of it.