My Adversities Give my Life Purpose

Throughout my life I faced a lot of challenges. I had to overcome the obstacle that was on my way. The obstacle made me stronger and made me the person who I am right

Hardship is seen in some degree in everyone’s lives. It pushes us to the maximum, makes us hit rock bottom. These experiences change us, though not in the same way. Some souls rise to the occasion and rise out of the ashes, while others become stuck in the endless downward spiral. Although some individuals are crushed by the adversity, other are about to overcome it and become better people and lead improved lives.

In life we may go through hardships that take us down a path that benefits us in the future and make us stronger individuals. These hardships can influence a person’s life by making us face obstacles we don’t want to face and

Imagine having the perfect life- you get into all honors classes, you get straight A’s, you are the first chair in the orchestra, you get into the A Cappella choir, you are on the varsity volleyball team, President of the Student Council, and you have a perfect home life. You have never had to face a single obstacle throughout your journey in life. When your whole life is like this, you do not know what failure feels like and will never experience the need to rise up after a downfall. There are many types of journeys one can take in life and dealing with obstacles has a prodigious impact on the outcome. The obstacles and hindrances are the things that shape us as we experience the ups and downs in life.

Hardships have the power to make a break a person, as Roman poet, Horace, once said, “Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant”. Everyone has or will have to face adversity at some point in their lives, it is a universal truth. Although misfortunes usually have a negative connotation, depending on the struggle and how one deals with it, it is likely the person will come out of misfortune better prepared for the world. Contrastly, if a person never experienced any hardships, they would lack a sophisticated understanding of the world and lack the ability to handle difficult situations. Adversity gives people strength they can not obtain with success.

Over the years I have faced many trials in my life. Like Frederick Douglass, I had to fight and learn to make the best of a bad situation. He had to find ways to learn to read and write on his own, where as I had to learn to support not only myself but a new life alone. How we faced hardship greatly influences our success in life.

Many of us in our life’s have difficulties with something we have or had to overcome to make us a better or a worse person. These are the trials in our life that makes us the way we are and shape our personal outlook of the world. Many of the most influential people such as Malcolm X, Martin Lurther King Jr, John Brown, and Michael Jordan has had some situations they had to overcome to be on top. Malcolm X couldn’t read until he taught himself how to, Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team, these are just little examples. The difficulties I had to overcome were mostly when I was a little kid in which I lived in Mississippi.

Life is like an obstacle course, you run into multiple obstacles on the way to the finish line, and there's no telling how many hindrances you may encounter. Very few people can go their whole life without obstacles along the way, others can’t seem to get away from them, but with every obstacle comes a beneficial or deleterious concomitant.

Throughout my life I faced a lot of challenges. I had to overcome the obstacle that was on my way. The obstacle made me stronger and made me the person who I am right now a ambitious and hardworking student. The problem shaped me up because I know that I have to work for what I want and to not depend on no one, this made me more independent. Also, I learned from my mistake and try to do better.

“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful” -Joshua J. Marine. If you face a trouble/hardship in life and you find a way to overcome them, life will teach you a valuable lesson. Ponyboy faces many deaths/troubles in his life; when he figured out how to get over them, he benefits tremendously. S.E. Hinton focuses on the topic of: everyone goes through hardships, it’s how you deal with them that teach you a greater lesson in life.

Adversity and difficulties are an inherent part of life that everyone has to handle, but is it possible they actually help people reach their highest potential? Difficulties bring out the skills and strengths that otherwise would have never been accessed. Horace could not have been wiser when he said “Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant,” and he could not have been wiser. There are many people who had an easy life or were born into their success who are remembered for greatness, but the stories of people who had to overcome challenges are always that ones that stay with us much more. Adversity is the only way humans can focus their skills and motivate themselves to become

People constantly determine that hardships prepare them for an anomalous triumph and that without adversity they will not have the strength to excel. However, in trying to achieve adversity people damage their psychological well-being, just like the Tuskegee Airmen who faced racial discrimination for serving their country. Although this may be true, the Roman poet Horace elucidates that “Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant”. This is often exemplified in A Raisin in the Sun and through Cristian Mariano Deppeler. To initiate, if it wasn’t for the hardships that adversity exposes people to, then many would not see meaning in their life, and in some cases, end up putting and end to it.

Through a life one can agree that success isn't a straight shot. There are hardships that will inhibit a person from their goal. With hard work one can live a “Life Almost Straight”. Most pieces under the unit name of “Life Almost Straight”; College Should Be an Adventure” by John Roush, “Peanuts” by Charles Schultz, and “Construint” by Efrai to name the key ones to be mentioned; collectively show a literal or interpretive hardship. Hardship is important for the Human Condition because hardship helps those who face it develop skills to further persevere past the opposing force and continue to surpass and succeed within life. The previously listed works have key connections to the collective unit name as well as to the Human Condition, as to be discussed.

There’s nothing more important in this world than having a reason and purpose to live. It’s what strives us, it’s what motivates us, it’s what carries us (anaphora). I look forward to life and the things it throws at me for I feel that I am ready. Challenges I faced as a kid have prepared me for the challenges I will face as an adult. I was constantly put in new environments as a child. I went to 3 elementary schools and 2 middle schools. No matter how much my life changed, I came to admire it. As the old saying goes “If life hands you lemons, you make lemonade” and I did just that (idiom). I am grateful for all the friends and memories I’ve made on my journey. However, I am most grateful for my family for allowing to be on this journey. This journey created who I am

There are plenty of obstacles, challenges and problems out there ready to get right in the way of plans, dreams and goals; there’s those that will grow into bigger problems and those that will reduce in size, if not resolved. Depending on whether, we decide to avoid them or face them head on; which we all have done at one time or another in our lives and got us to where we’re at today. Then there’s everyday life, that throws new complications and encounters at us every day; which is also another thing that everyone is endlessly faced with, and what we must deal with immediately to survive and overcome; prior to allowing it grow bigger and get out of control. Those too are obstacles, challenges and problems that make life fascinating and overcoming them; is what makes life meaningful.