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Overcoming Obstacles

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At least once in everyone’s life there is an obstacle that they face and have to overcome. Obstacles and barriers are used as a way to help shape people to help them become what they are supposed to be in life. Some Obstacles and barriers can be small and could be easily fixed, however some are Big and may take a while to overcome. Since I am only sixteen I have not had many problems, and for the problems that I did have were actually very small. When trying to answer this question I come to realize that none of the major problems I had were external they were all mainly internal, more specifically myself. The main obstacle I have had to overcome in my life was accepting myself for who I am and learning how to love me for me. Growing …show more content…

Then she started putting me in skirts and bows and I was actually happy about until I got to school. Once I got to school the popular girls started talking about me and how I has hairy, ugly, and fat. When I got home I told my mom and she said I shouldn’t worry about what other people told me and that I was a pretty girl. So when went back to school I started tuning out what people said about me until I got older. When I reached middle school the taunting about my weight died down but I still found it as a problem. I couldn’t ignore what people were saying about me because I cared what people thought of me. I went on diets and worked out every day and it worked. I started to lose weight. But after a while I actually started to gain weight instead of lose it and crushed my feelings. I felt that I did everything right and it worked for everyone else but me. I thought that no one would ever like me because I felt like I wasn’t good enough. I felt as if I wasn’t as pretty, small, or intriguing as the other girls. I hardly could even look myself in the mirror because I felt as if I was a

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