Failure. It's a scary thing. no one wants to fail but its part of life. Sometimes its things that can be fixed and other times its things that change your life forever. this is a stupid cliché petty failure but it stuck with me because it changed me.
Freshman year I was in voice and for our final we had to sing a solo in front of the class now this seems like no big deal because we had been doing this all semester but I was super nervous. So I'm one of the last ones to go after the "crazy good people" have rocked their solos. I get through my song up until the highest note of the piece (I had only hit this note one time before so I was really nervous) and I completely botch the note, it was a mess. I failed at hitting the note but what I really failed at was being true to myself. I finally realized while hitting the very wrong note that for the entire class I had been trying to please and impress the "amazing" singers that sat in the front row and goofed off and could give a crap about this little freshman.
I was letting myself get lost in the fact that I was not as good as these other people and it mad me feel awful about myself and I took me until the final for the class for me to realize that that was not who I wanted to be.
My failure to hit one high note resulted in me finding out that I don't want to care what others thought of me especially if they make me feel bad because I'm not good enough for them.
Interesting story. I liked how you talked about and showed how you learned to not try to impress other people to gain their approval. I also like your sarcastic, "amazing" singer sentence, good way to establish what you think of those people. To improve this blog post, I would break up some of your sentences so they flow better. But otherwise, great job!
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