Celebrating Failure

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26A

For New Year’s this year, I made a resolution to reach out to my friends and family more. I am normally really busy and I tend to forget to update/get updates from my loved ones. My resolution consisted of calling or face-timing my friends and family at least once a month, or bimonthly. I managed to keep my resolution up for the first month, I called one person a day and made sure to text my parents every night. Slowly, I noticed myself stop calling my loved ones, but I still wanted to catch up with them so I would send an occasional text or interact with them on social media. I guess you could say I failed at keeping up this resolution because I haven’t called any of my loved ones for a while since school has gotten more stressful. However, during this pandemic I’ve made more time to reach out to my friends and family, making sure they are ok and catching up with them. I learned that life can get busy, but you should always make time for the ones you love and make sure that they are doing fine. I tend to handle failure by talking it through with my best friend or mom and we make a game plan for the next time a failure occurs. I assure myself that it is ok to fail, but this class has helped with my perspective. I learned that it is ok to fail and in some cases, it is better because you tend to learn about the situation and yourself more.

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  1. Ethan ENT 3003April 16, 2020 at 4:30 PM

    Hey Deborah,
    Keeping up with people is definitely important, but it can be very difficult. I know that keeping up with people is definitely something that I could use to work on too. I also like how you are close enough with your friends and mom to discuss failures and how you have a group of people who can help you to succeed.

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  2. Christopher ZislinApril 20, 2020 at 9:25 AM

    Hey Deborah,
    I also took the time to write about a New Year's resolution failure. I definitely agree that this strange world we live in today causes a lot of distractions as well as tough go arounds. With classes being fully online it seems that some professors just loaded up the busy work making it even tougher to contact your friends and family.

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