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I Fail at Everything I Do. You Probably Do, Too.

Sharonda Harris-Marshall
4 min readJul 2, 2018

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#FAIL! Photo by Quino Al on Unsplash

When I was 16, I did what every teenager dreams of: taking my driver’s test. I failed it. I didn’t understand why I was bad at driving when my other classmates passed. The second time I took the test, I failed it again.

All in all, I failed my road test five times.

So, how’s my driving now? My car insurance company considers me enough of a “safe driver” to give me a discount, so there’s that. But I still managed to total my car when I was 27. So….average? Let’s go with average.

Regardless, it’s just one more example of how I fail at everything I attempt.

Ok. So the headline is hyperbole, but only slightly. Technically, I did make it through high school, college, and grad school. So I didn’t fail school. I just fail at everything else.

Come on! Hear me out!

I failed at staying thin. I fail at maintaining contacts. I fail to make friends. I failed at several romantic relationships. I fail at winning bids. I fail to secure funding. I fail to secure cast and crew for my projects. I fail to secure clients. I fail to turn a profit in business. I fail to secure repeat business. I’m even failing at my marriage, partially…

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Sharonda Harris-Marshall
Sharonda Harris-Marshall

Written by Sharonda Harris-Marshall

is a filmmaker, photographer, and digital media artist living a stereotypical artist life. She could have been a doctor or a scientist, but here we are.

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