College essay prompts draft

College Essay Prompt #1
 The lessons we take from failure can be fundamental to later success. Recount an incident or time when you experienced failure. How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience?

Failure in many things can be taken as learning experiences. My mom was the very person that helped me realize this. In the kitchen she can be a formidable foe. Being such a good chef you'd think that she wouldn't know much about failure in the kitchen. Though she does make mistakes, she just brushes them off like it was nothing. Though with me I was a decent but amateur and I wasn't very good as well. But my mom helped me brush that off as well. 

  I was starting to prepare the ingredients for the food that we were gonna eat that night. With every ingredient being I had a feeling of uneasiness that something was going to happen, but i couldn't put my mind to it. My mom had come into the kitchen and she told me "Can you cook the food I have to do something." and I replied "Yeah of course!" I was the type of person that loves the recognition that I get from people. So I was excited for the opportunity to be able to cook for my family. But I was in for everything opposite of that.

  Burnt. The smell. The sight of it. I had burnt and messed up the food. My sister had come down the stairs to investigate the smell and what she saw and smelt amused her. She laughed at me and ridiculed me for my misfortune. I was so embarrassed. But my mom came to the rescue and saw the wreck I had made.  She then told me that the burnt food was a mistake that could be easily be made a right because to become better at something you need to fail and learn from that experience. It made me feel somewhat better but I couldn't bare that I had messed our food.    

  This experience had helped me grow as a person. This failure turned out to be a success in  learning to deal with problems by smiling and listening to my mom's advice. Though this was a bad situation my mom had made into a good one. My look on  bad situation had changed entirely. If I had not burnt the chicken I would have get my recognition and be very proud. But I would not have not learned from this mistake. A failure turned learning experience.