Student Council Research Paper

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When I was in elementary school, I dreamed of being vice president of student council. I knew that I could do it because I had assumed that I had all the qualifications. For starters, I was nice, always ready to talk to anyone and everyone who came up to me. Order and planning were other key assets I had believed I had perfected along with things that I had thought would propel me into being the winning ballot. When I had strode up to the front of the classroom and delivered my flawlessly memorized speech, there was no doubt in my mind that I would be the next class vice president for I had not faced failure in many things before. Then, the announcements came. I had been sat on the edge of my seat, my feet bouncing against the floor as I readied myself to stand up when my name was called in victory.
The impossible happened next. The name being called out of my teachers mouth was not my own, but my opponent. Astounded, I had slipped back into my seat, blinking rapidly in an attempt to keep the hot tears from spilling. It was the first time I had ever lost something that I had put my best effort into and I could not understand it.
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The cockiness and arrogance that I had as a fourth grader has slowly faded away leaving me as a much more modest person. I have learned that just because failure does not mean giving up, nor does it mean that I am not good enough or that I did not try my hardest. Failure means gaining knowledge about myself or about a topic. When I did not become vice president of student council back in fourth grade, I thought it was the end of the world. I had thought that I messed up, that I lost because there was something wrong with me and not because my opponent might have been more equipped than I had