Obstacles In My Life

Everything is perfectly fine, everything is great, then one day it all comes crashing down and shattered pieces are left. My life would never be the same but I guess change is for the best and it forced me to become the person I am today. It’s rough to be the oldest child, especially when your mom is diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and you have 3 younger sisters that look to you for comfort when their mom can’t be there. When the cancer is spread throughout your moms body doctors can’t just get rid of it no matter how badly you wish they could. Rounds of chemotherapy only slow it down, yet it’s still there a lurking monster waiting to reappear at any given moment. Nothing can even begin to describe the fear I felt, and still have to deal

When I turned 11-years-old my whole childhood began to change my life went from being perfect to everything but perfect. One day I came home to hear the news my father, my best friend; my hero was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer. Not knowing the struggle my family was about to take on I just began to cry. I had a million things running through my head what’s going to happen? Will everything be okay? Why him? What is going to happen? With all these things rushing through my head all I could do was cry not knowing this was least worse to come.

At the age of 17 years old, it is the obstacles in my life that defines who I am and who I strive to be in the next chapter of my life. In order to understand who I am and where I want to be it is important to reflect on my early experiences. I am Asian but I am definitely not the “model minority” that the news and research make us out to be. My mother gave birth to me as a teen mother. Unmarried, both my teen parents dealt with their own struggles while raising my siblings and I. Addiction was very familiar. Early in my childhood, I can recall memories of my siblings and I living with extended family members because of my parents’ inability to provide stable housing. I have witnessed my uncles on both sides of my parents’ family being affiliated with gangs, drugs and violence, and

Rough starts, rough life and struggles, my childhood was not what I thought it would be. When I was born, I already had complications, I wasn’t those type of typical babies that would come out of their mother’s womb and cry. I came out of my mother’s womb but when I came out I did not cry. The doctor had to slap me for me to be able to cry. I was what is called a blue baby, I wouldn’t normally breath when I was a newborn. My parents even said that I almost died when I was a baby. It was long amount of time and days for me to be checked out of the hospital. For a baby, I thought that I was very strong because I handled all those pain when I was young. It was probably last year when I found out the whole story about my childhood. The doctor

At surface level, the unfortunate experiences in life can appear to be obstacles and setbacks. I disagree. Labelling something as an obstacle implies getting over it rather than seeing an opportunity to work through it and learn. Looking beyond the surface level, I've learned everything has a silver lining and everything ultimately manifests for a reason. Some of the worst things that have happened to me ignited the most profound periods of growth in my life. Through it all, I learned to see the beautiful in the ugly.

Throughout my life I have experienced and overcome different obstacles that have shaped me to be the person I am. My life has been influenced the most by the adoption of my two brothers. My parents had always wanted to grow our family through adoption, and finally when I was about nine we decided to take a leap of faith, and adopt from China. Even from the young age of nine, I knew this was going to be a major life changing event.

In my life, I have had many obstacles to face but the main one that has always made a huge impact in my life has been the death of my father. When I was just six years old, my father passed away in a car accident and back then it didn't mean much to me but soon enough my thirteenth-year old self-learned what it really meant.

Some people think that having obstacles in your life is to ruin what you are trying to accomplish. If you didn't have those obstacles, then everyone's life would be easy, and what would be the point? Having obstacles in your life should help you more to keep going, and to make your life better in a way that you won't consider having.

In an instant you can lose something or someone that meant a lot to you. To others it may not seem to be all that significant but for you it is. It was in the summer of 2011 that I saw my dreams go down the drain in an instant, not knowing if I would be able to resurrect them. Sports wise I had been through many obstacles, but this was one obstacle, both mentally and physically, that I would never forget.

Overcoming obstacles through the stages of my life has been my biggest challenge. As time progressed, I’ve learned that people can go through so many challenges yet hide these secrets so naturally that the world does not notice what they are undergoing. Learning how to speak up and ask for help, was the most difficult thing to do. Three years ago I was a victim of dating violence.

We go through many obstacles in our life, some can be small others can be very big, so big they impact our lives very drastically. The obstacle I had to overcome was the death of my father. I was in middle school when it happened, it was a pretty normal monday. I woke up at 6:30 am to get ready for school. My dad gave me a ride to school like he always did, he didn’t seem any different he looked healthy as ever. I had a pretty normal day school,I walked home from school. My dad wasn’t home yet when I got home, he was still at work,my mom made me lunch. A few hours later,my dad comes home,he eats dinner a few minutes later a cousin of my dad comes over to just talk. She stays about for an hour,it’s about 9:00 pm

All my life my parents told me I could do whatever I set my mind to whether it was athletics, academics, or leadership positions within my school. But what my parents failed to mention was the obstacles life we are sometimes dealt with. My obstacle is my inability to focus due to Attention Deficit Disorder. Even at a young age I realized it would always be more difficult for me to excel academically than my peers. By the age of eight I had already tried every form of medication, but none of them allowed me to feel “normal”. I would never be able to reach my full advantage in the classroom without the medicine and I formed a reliance on it. It pained me to see that little tasks like focusing long enough to comprehend a book would never happen

I didn't understand what was going on or what he had done, but I knew he did something bad. I had never heard my parents fight like this before; so much yelling and crying. Something was definitely wrong. Then my father was gone, never seen again, but the damage had already been done. This time period of my life was filled with many different obstacles, both major and minor. Overcoming all the obstacles during this time in my life was not enjoyable, but through mental strength, hard work and support from my mother, and help from family and friends, I was able to move past this obstacle. This period of my life has helped me to become a better person and made me stronger mentally and emotionally.

The obstacle of my parents divorcing will always try to hinder my life, whether that be while I'm young or when I grow old. But I know it will always make me who I am - a writer, a loving sister, daughter, and hopefully, one day, a doctor. I will forever be the girl standing on the wing of a plane in my dreams, but I know my brothers will always hold my hand along the way, for no one obstacle will ever break that bond, because it’s who we are, the kids who save ourselves.

The challenges I have gone through has made me the person I am today and has made me a stronger person mentally and physically. I’m more of an independent type of person because I’m not one to express my feelings to people I don’t trust or don’t know. I can tell my friends certain things, but when it comes to adults asking me about what’s going on in my life, I can’t open up to them. I feel anxiety every time an adult wants to talk to me because I don’t like to say what I’m going through or how I’m feeling. I’ll just tell them that everything is fine because I don’t want to be asked more or been told more about talking to someone about my problems. I just like to do things on my own so I don’t have to rely on having someone to be here for me whenever something is wrong.