Celebrating failure

When coming here to UF as a freshman, one of my biggest goals was to get involved. Being in the business school, one of the primary programs you here about is the Florida Leadership Academy and how great of an opportunity it is to be apart of it. After learning more about the program, I made it my primary goal to get into this top program.  After already becoming involved in so many different programs, I was extremely confident that I had a chance to be apart of such an amazing group of people. After applying and receiving an interview, I even participated in several mock interviews. All in all, after getting so far and working so hard to get to that point, I was not invited to join the new class. From this experience, I learned to not be so closed-minded and be more proud of the things I've  done in my life up to this point. Because I was so focused on getting one thing, I forgot about everything i should of been proud of in my other involvement. If anything the experience showed me that one person or one organization is one failure is not going to change or define my future. People always see failure as a bad thing; however, it's not bad at all. Failure is necessary for people to become great. In addition, failure also brings out the best and worst in people and allows them to learn from it and shape who they are as a person. Because I'm have a happy go lucky type of personality, I generally handle failure fairly well. I don't let it stop me, and I'm always trying to think on the bright side and the happier things in life. As mentioned, it's not the end of the world. I'm still going to live life to its fullest and enjoy being happy. For this class, failure is almost inevitable either with your ideas or being shut down while trying to get an interview. In this sense, failure has been a great learning opportunity for all of us to keep trying and never stop believing in ourselves, our dreams, our hopes, or our futures. Because of this, I would say I'm more likely to take a risk.