My Quality Of Life

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

Learning to deal with and overcoming adversity is what made me who I am. Every challenge and every difficulty I’ve successfully confronted in my life served as a way to strengthen my will, confidence and ability to conquer future obstacles. A famous quote I liked came from Herodotus, the Greek philosopher, who said, "Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have lain dormant in its absence.” When I responded positively and constructively to my biggest challenges, the qualities of strength, courage, character and perseverance emerged from deep within, because I am human, it was very easy to get caught up in the self-pity, unfairness of life, or the “why me?” trap. When I did think like that, I learned that I failed to recognize the opportunities for wisdom and growth that accompanied adversity. However, as soon as I allowed myself to think more clearly, I was able to let go of self-defeating and unproductive thoughts and get down to the business of dealing with what was happening before me and what can happen for me in my future. My failures and setbacks have nothing to do with me being a menace to society instead I had to realize it’s something every human being goes through. It’s a part of life and has everything to do with being human. Circumstances to me now mean nothing. Limitations don’t hold me back.

One weekend, we had decided to clean out the house to surprise my mother. My father found papers stashed away that revealed theft charges; my mother had stolen medication when she substituted for the nurse in my elementary school. I remember my dad scouring the house for more evidence, even finding a stash of pill bottles under their mattress. She had another court date coming up that he learned about, just a few weeks before a family trip to Disney. Shortly after that hearing, my family took our last vacation as a whole, knowing that a key member would be lost to us the Monday after our return; she was going into work-release for two months. Before the end of those sixty days, my father learned that my mother had been unfaithful. Their marriage ended, and at eleven and nine, my sister and I said what we didn't realize would be goodbye to our mother for a great while. Her drug abuse continued, and months of time would pass between visits. We saw that sweet, ideal mother devolve into an addict. This loss has shaped me greatly, and it has taught me integrity, strength of character, and great love for others; without these things, my mother cost herself her family and

Countless figures in history, including people like Thomas Edison, were able to succeed only because of the determination they had to achieve their goal, and their ability to persevere regardless of the hardships they had been confronted with. Grit allows us to keep going, after thousands of failures or setbacks, pushing through even after being told you would fail. Grit keeps us from giving up, making us try time after time again. Angela Lee Duckworth’s quote can be applied to my life, as well as the lives of many others in the arts and in history. The most prominent experience in my life, in which I had to be resilient and display a large amount of “grit”, would be the struggle I had trying to move up in my band; in the end, my hard work and determination paid off and I surpassed my expectations. In the arts, the protagonist in the book series Harry Potter can easily be considered to have displayed the traits Angela Duckworth was talking about, never giving up regardless of the challenges ahead. Finally, throughout his life, Thomas Edison had been known to never give up, continuously being forced to overcome challenges, yet never giving up through it all. Now, upon realizing the impact grit has on success, the following question arises: what would the world be like if everyone displayed this trait, determined to achieve their goal no matter how hard the task becomes? Therefore, the next time you are faced with an obstacle, do not be intimidated by it and turn back, but rather face it head on, knowing it will make you stronger. Get back up after each time you are pushed to the ground, and you might just end up exceeding even your own

I grew up in a unhealthy household; days and nights were drowned by screaming, fighting, crying, mental and emotional abuse. Being the youngest in my family I took the aftermath of my mother and siblings’ pain and aggravation. My only break was school, but even then I was tormented by my own bottled up emotions.

Overcoming these obstacles has made me a mature and strong individual. I am proud of what I have accomplished, even with the hardships that I have had to face and my biggest goal is to make my parents proud.

Everyone faces struggles in their life. Some allow those struggles to help build them as a person, others let those struggles tear them down. For me, I allowed my struggles to help me develop academically and personally. Without struggle there is no progress.

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 have varied throughout my life in both health complications and society itself. Early trauma has conflicted my mom for sometime whose brothers died in a horrendous drowning accident in 1979 . As life progressed and I came into the world, drug addiction and other illnesses manifested in our outside family, eventually making its way to my older sister. These events at a young age helped me understand reality faster than a normal person.

If you have ever said to yourself, I have no determination in life, I fall flat in everything I attempt; if we all gave up at the sight of failure, no one would ever realize whichever goals they have in life. Angela Lee Duckworth tells Deborah Perkins-Gough that being gritty or having grit is to be resilient in the face of failure or adversity. If you live by a code, of, “If I can’t do it the first time I will not try again” you will never undertake anything. Many studies have been conducted that explicitly say successful people are not just smart, but also strong in the face of challenges. In the article, “What if the secret to success is failure?” Levine collaborates, “The students who persisted in college were not necessarily the ones who had excelled academically at KIPP; they were the ones who were able to

My story begins when I was in my late teens as the door closed, the lock latched, and I stood there with my hands in my pocket shocked. Tears ran down my dark circled eyes, I looked to my left, then to my right, looking for a place to hide. The weight of the world was on my chest, and suffocating seemed inevitable as the seconds dragged on. That is when the adolescent psychiatrist arrived. It had been 5 nights since I last slept, 3 days since eating, and yes, I had just been voluntarily committed into a mental health outpatient facility. Until these moments, I had never really thought about my family history of mental illness but it soon plagued my mind. I remember my dad’s alcoholism and depression,

As a young child, I was always closer to my father, so witnessing him do such horrible things to my mother had forever traumatized me. My parent’s separation during my prepubescent years was the worst experience I had in my life. I fell into a stage in which I resented my father for damaging our home and not only breaking my mother’s heart, but mine as well. I could not and would not grasp the idea that living in New York would somehow be better for us. I would spend night after night crying myself to sleep because all I wanted was my family to go back to what I considered normal for a long

Throughout my childhood my mother had severe bipolar disorder and took her daily rage out on my three siblings, my father and myself. My oldest brother, Nick, was impacted by her behavior and grew into a violent child. When my parents were gone Nick was the babysitter. I was weak and defenseless—an easy target for the outlet of his anger. He formed an alliance with our siblings and tormented me with every opportunity. Eventually, I developed a fear of my siblings in addition to my established fear of my mom. This fear turned into depression and self-doubt. For years I dreaded being at home where I was blanketed by harassment and blame, so I actively sought out opportunities to escape.

Yes, I do have grit in my life for a long time. Main reason I have set goals before I started college what I want to try to become a National Park Service Ranger and do photography on the side. There have been many instances I have thought about different life goals I have wanted to do, but this most important. Finding my passion for becoming a National Park Service Ranger is the goal in my life for next chapter to adulthood.  I have been very determined be  successful in my life to get what I put in which is lots of time and effort.

Life is a made up of an assortment of moments. Many say that one must learn from obstacles that everyone struggles with. Many also say that every challenge that we come across assist us to achieve strength of our character and self-growth. As a new kid coming from the ghetto to a suburban setting was rough at times because of bullies making comments about my speech and the ability of reading. For myself, learning to read was more difficult than tying my shoes or even riding a bike without training wheels. Coming from Bridgeport, Connecticut to Monroe, Connecticut was a huge transition; new school, new house and new people. Arriving to Monroe sparked an instant change, I was receiving work at levels that I had never experienced but was normal