Personal Experience Essay Example

My Personal Experience

Although we've all experienced any degree of disappointments in our lives, there are a select few

that tend to stick with us. They act as assets in our lives, tools to use help us grow. The way a person

deals with disappointment speaks volume about who someone is. Personally, I am the kind of person

who likes to have constants in my life; commodities that won't change and those that I can depend

on when everything else is unstable. When I was in my second year of middle school, one of my

biggest constants was my band director, Ms. Palmer. The way my school district operated, all the

middle school directors would also help in the mornings at the high school band class. As a result of

adequate contemplation, I realized that it wasn't the best idea to depend on other people so deeply. In

my youth, I had been raised and taught how to be independent and to care for myself, making sure

that I could give myself all I needed to become successful. This loss of someone turned out to be

invaluably important in my life and further reinforced my idea that the only person you should

depend on is yourself. Though this sounds grim, I am able to attribute much of my success to my

personal independence. I've learned how to set goals for myself, how to motivate myself to try and

rise above negative situations and develop from them. Ms. Palmer leaving sparked my first internal

revision that has thus led to a personal reflection resulting in the mindset I possess now. Several

years later, I have the ability to reflect upon myself in a more timely and constructive manner.

Looking at situations like these in a useful light, disappointments are a fantastic