Question

In life threr are no gains without pain''. narrrate some incident of your life.

Answer 1

I have always learned more from my failures than from my successes.  The feeling success brings is pretty fleeting but failure sticks with you and gnaws at you for quite some time. Maybe that’s just me.  When I was a kid I started failing right away. Luckily, I had a short memory and I learned to get over it pretty fast. The first major mistake was smoking cigarettes when I was only 4 years old. I was hanging out with a couple of older guys who were 6 at the time. They both had parents who smoked, so cigarettes were readily available to them. I didn’t even know what smoking was because my parents were adamantly against it. This was the ’50s though so I had seen it on TV and I was pretty curious about it, since a lot of cool people seemed to like it. One day, my buddies invited me to join them in their first experiment with tobacco. They had stolen some butts from their parents and then came by to get me. Unfortunately, they were in such a hurry they forgot to get matches. We improvised by going down to the storm sewer where they were doing some construction and using the little smudge pots as a lighter.  They let me have the honor of going first. I gagged my way through a couple of puffs, coughed so hard that my eyes temporarily left their sockets and promptly turned green from the poison.  The other guys just laughed and questioned my manhood. At least that’s what it sounded like as they choked out the words through their own hacking. Almost dying and being called a wuss were the least of my problems. As soon as I got home, my sister Karen took one whiff of my Lucky Strike breath and quickly squealed on me to mom.  My mom’s pained look was enough to convince me that tobacco was not for me.