Celebrating Failure

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Something that I have struggled and failed at this summer is finding things to bond with my little brother over. He is thirteen years old and we used to be very close, but since I left for college, we have stopped spending time together and I am worried that I could lose this bond. I thought that when I moved back home for the summer I would be able to bond more with him, but he has been mostly unresponsive. I have tried to talk to him about his friends or the shows that he is watching, but he seems uninterested in discussing these things with me. I told myself that I would try to learn about the video games that he was playing and maybe play them with me, but have not. I always find something else to do (usually that I consider more important) and I think that is leading to a continued strain on our relationship. I think that this failure has put an emotional strain on me because I desperately want to improve this relationship but I think that if I push too hard, it will just make the relationship worse.

I think that this class has taught me a lot about failure and has pushed me to act outside of my comfort zone. The interviews pushed me to talk to people and work to discuss topics that I may not be comfortable with. I think that this has inspired me to be more willing to learn and talk about things that don't necessarily interest me. I hope that I will be able to apply this to the things that I want to learn and talk to my brother about, and act outside of my comfort zone. And maybe fail at playing some video games and be willing to get beat by a 13 year old.

Comments

  1. Lauren Jae BuschurJuly 27, 2019 at 12:19 PM

    Alex,
    I like how you connected this personal failure to what you have learned in this class about failure and how to deal with it. Im sorry you have been faced with this emotional strain, but don't worry! Take the lessons you have learned from this experience to better the situation! My sibling and I became closer as we grew up and time went on. Keep your head up and don't give up!

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  2. SabrinaJuly 28, 2019 at 7:55 PM

    Hi Alex!

    I think its very sweet how much you value your relationship with your brother. You made a great connection between going out and interviewing people about topics you may not be comfortable with and talking about video games with your brother. Its great that you put so much of an effort for your relationship with him to even learn about something you don't care for as much. I agree that pushing too hard sometimes may make it worse, but at least you're making an effort and I think your brother will appreciate it in the future.

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  3. Jasmine WornstaffJuly 29, 2019 at 4:11 PM

    Hi Alex! I really enjoyed the fact that you wrote this blog post about something in your personal life that you think you haven’t succeeded as well as you had wished. I feel like I have been reading many about failures in academics but this was very refreshing. Being an only child, I have always wondered how I would handle situations such as the one you have described. This was a very great read, thank you for sharing!

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  4. rkuninJuly 29, 2019 at 11:34 PM

    Alex,
    It's great to hear that this class pushed you out of your comfort zone. I'm sure it did to a lot of students making all the deadlines and submitting so many different assignments on a time constraint. I know this class was more of a burden to me than most I have taken for the sheer fact that it wasn't really on my own pace but rather at the speed of deadlines.

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