Personal Narrative: Losing In High School

Losing eventually becomes a normal event until you feel what it is like to win. For most of my life I didn’t mind losing. I would quit tasks if they proved too difficult or time- consuming. Losing was common to me, and I didn’t care, until I won something on my own accord. The sophomore year of my high school career was the worst year of my life, easily. It was the year my father, David Lane Brown, died after 3 years of suffering lung cancer. I was already a poor student, yes I was in the Longview High School International Baccalaureate Program, but nevertheless, I was a reluctant student, with both of my parents pleading me to do absolutely anything productive in school, Boy Scouts, or Technology Students Association (TSA). Comparatively to my second- oldest sister, who was soon to be valedictorian of her grade, I was a nothing. I was getting nothing done, and I was wasting myself and my potential away. That all changed when a friend of my sister’s (Heidy Soto) invited me to be on her Technology Bowl team in TSA, an event focused on asking technology- intensive trivia questions. It seemed interesting, as before I had never really cared to look extensively through the events that TSA offered. Regardless, I didn’t study much at all for the event. Soon enough, state competition came (I had advanced in a different event at regionals), and after passing the written exam, it was time for the oral competition rounds. The team was a success, and with every round that we won, I was becoming more and more engaged in the event. We made it to the semi- finals round, and we lost to the opposing team, badly, and moved on to the losing- finals round (for third and …show more content…
My academic performance has increased, I have grown to be more involved in scouting on my own accord, and as far as I can see, I have grown very much. After finally knowing victory, I can only crave it