MY ESSAYYYY!!!!!

Nobody likes to start over, but sometimes life just accidentally presses your restart button whether you wanted it or not. Everyone has started over before, whether it's washing your clothes and dropping food on it immediately, reading an article for a class and finding out that you read the wrong one, or, like me, not saving the entire essay after 1-2 hours of hard work and continuous typing. Starting over is probably one of the worst feelings that every person has experienced multiple times in their lives. After restarting the process, you get so depressed over how good you did and how you just wasted a couple hours of your time to achieve nothing at all. You feel demotivated to do it again because you think it will be so boring and too much work. This is exactly what I felt after I opened my Microsoft Word and found out the entire essay was gone.

Starting over is soo much harder than starting up. When I do something for the first time, there is some sort of excitement that I get when I go on an adventure. It reminds me that I need to put in all my effort to succeed because I am just a beginner. This is like when I had my first hard AP class: APUSH. I worked so hard, probably the hardest I have worked in high school, in that class because I was scared of the unknown but also excited. The excitement eventually died down because the class was somewhat repetitive and we were doing things in the same format over and over. In the middle of the year, I was procrastinated so much; sometimes I did the homework the hour before it was due (please don't tell Mr. Bato). Back to my essay, I procrastinated for an entire day before starting my essay over. Writing the essay was like reading something you have read before and trying not to fall asleep; I was bored out of my mind.

However, starting over does have benefits. What if that article you accidentally read is on the next test and you now know all the answers. What if the shirt you dropped food on made you a better laundry keeper. There is always something that you can take away from the past mistakes that made you start over. For example, after my essay disappeared, I learned to ALWAYS TURN ON MY AUTOSAVE. These insignificant life lessons will add up and help you prevent a future crisis. Without this mistake, I could have messed up my college applications by not saving and sending a blank form; now, I know I will not make that mistake.

Overall though, starting over still sucks. I could've used that hour to study for the vocab quiz so I know the Garden of Eden was an allusion. I wish I could sue Microsoft for not being like google docs and automatically turning on autosave.