<p>So for my essay I want to talk about how my mother had a severe brain injury and how that has had an effect on our lives. At first I was thinking about doing the essay topic: "Discuss an accomplishment or event, formal or informal, that marked your transition from childhood to adulthood within your culture, community, or family." But then I started to think that i could do the topic: "Recount an incident or time when you experienced failure. How did it affect you, and what lessons did you learn?" For that one, it isn't a specific failure, but is a failure in that I had no way of helping my mom out during that time as i was just sitting there hopeless and i felt like i failed her. And learning from that is that you can't control situations like that as when you grow up in life you are faced with these kinds of situations that you have no control over and you've learned to accept it because the stress and hardship of feeling like you've failed someone puts a burden on your life and you shouldn't have to live with that. It's not really an external, physical failure like losing the championship but rather an personal, internal failure. Does this make sense? Thank you.</p>
<p>Try the College Essay forum next time. But It doesn’t matter which prompt you use, as long as you are making some attempt to answer the prompt. There is a great deal of flexibility here, so you can use anyone that works for you. The first prompt works too.</p>
<p>I think it fits the first prompt better since you are growing up and maturing through the difficult situation.</p>