Write an 800-word composition with the theme of "growth", and the style is not limited!

The river of years flows slowly, and the footprints of growth are deeply left behind. Looking back suddenly, I left a string of deep or shallow footprints on the road of growth, recording happiness and sadness and accompanying me along the way.

When I was a child, I always loved to play in the bunker downstairs with my friends. It was so happy and comfortable to step on the soft sand. Accidentally, I fell and tried to get up. A string of footprints appeared behind us, and the sun shone on our smiling faces, making them more brilliant. That string of footprints records joy and my growth. When I was a child, I was happy and carefree. I hope I will always be a child.

I went to kindergarten, and I loved reading at that time. Every evening, I always pester my mother to take me to the bookstore to read books, cross the bustling pedestrian street and come to the bookstore door. When I was a child, I always liked to step on those big footprints printed outside the door. How interesting. Today, although I am not as happy as a child, I have another more substantial happiness, that is, reading. Books take me to the ocean of knowledge, and the big footprints outside the bookstore are the testimony of my happy growth.

Now I am an eighth-grade student, and I am out of breath, accompanied by repeated failures.

Today, I failed the exam again. I was holding a math paper with less than 80 points in my hand, and my tears were spinning in my eyes. It was so boring. Walking listlessly on the way home, I inadvertently stepped into the sandpit where I played. A series of footprints were printed, and a gust of wind blew away the test paper in my hand and blew it into the bunker. I'll get it quickly. Suddenly I saw footprints, which reminded me of the happy footprints left by running here when I was a child, and also reminded me of the huge footprints that the kindergarten stepped on in front of the bookstore. Thought of here, I smiled, a heartfelt smile. Ah, I see, in fact, happiness is with me, with my growth.

Isn't failure and frustration a happy reminder? How can I see a rainbow without experiencing wind and rain? Only by standing the test can we be happy, the most fulfilling happiness. Only by laughing can you feel happy. Yes, I nodded firmly. I must study hard and get good grades in the exam! I picked up the test paper and strode home ... I left a string of footprints behind me, which turned golden under the sunlight, and it was these footprints that led to success and happiness.

Thanks to the growing footprint, I found my self-confidence and my childhood happiness. Indeed, as long as you observe carefully, you will find. And this happiness, like footprints, will always follow us and grow with us forever.