Overcoming Obstacles

We are often exposed to face daily obstacles in our lifetime, however as much as these obstacles seem to have an appearance of bad luck, they can sometimes be turned out to help us in our advantage. These impediments often help us find another solution for complications that we have no power over, like my mother always said, “When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade.” Therefore, whenever I am involved in a specific hurdle I tend to make the best out of whatever I can. I believe that by having these certain complications in your life, you are taught to overpower these difficulties, become a stronger individual, and also to become independent.

Any obstacle or disadvantage can be turned into something good because no matter how hard the obstacle is to overcome there can always be a positive outcome. For example, in the novel “The Outsiders” no matter how bad Ponyboy was treated and all the problems

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.

There are two kinds of people: the ones that are willing to give up after seeing the first obstacle in their way and the ones that are willing to turn the same obstacle in their favor. Any problem, may it be an obstacle or a disadvantage, can always be turned into something good if you believe you can do it. All you have to do in order to accomplish this is to see with another perspective all the good there is in any problem, no matter how hard or impossible it seems to be.

Obstacles change our way of thought and affect our emotions. A person’s values change as well as their character and they develop an understanding on their situation. Through the hardships of any situation, there is some way or another a solution only in the presence of desire.

Everyone has obstacles in life, but find different ways of overcoming the adversity. When you overcome obstacles, you either have a negative or positive attitude. But in the end, you usually end up happy with your outcome. People overcome challenges by not giving up, having a good attitude, and being confident. First, not giving up helps people get over challenges because when you give up, you're throwing away your idea and thinking that it may not change the world or it won't have an effect on anyone.

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.

Have you ever decided to take on a task and halfway there you decide it is way too hard and just put it aside and give up? Why not just look at it from a different perspective and try to make it into a positive situation. Any obstacle can be concurred with the right attitude and outlook. In “Canine scrutiny” by Lawrence Eisenberg he said “ In any situation in life that is negative, there is something positive you can do with it”. So in any situation, you just have to look at the brightside.

Life gets in our way sometimes, for some people it’s most of the time. There are people out there that champion life and make it all seem easy. Then, there are people like me, people that can “fake it till you make it”, we have a pretty good poker face. The last group of people just crumble when posed with a problem or encounter an obstacle. Obstacles’ are everywhere, always, however it’s not always the obstacle that concerns people, its others’ reactions to the obstacle and how they overcome it. Whether it’s a relationship issue, a job issue, or a family issue they can all have the same effect on someone and their mental well-being.

An obstacle can be turned into something good. How you may ask? There are many answers to this question. Perhaps one of them can be by looking at the positive side in the situation. This matters because it causes society to either overcome the situation or ignore it. If a problem is ignored, it will most certainly come two times more difficult than it was the first time.

When i come upon an obstacle i learn from it and turn it into something good. For example, in the book the “The inner castle” lori, the main character, would have to move from school to school due to her father's work. However, rather than her seeing it as a bad thing she looked to the bright side and made moving from schools every 4 months an opportunity

“If you can’t do anything about it, then let it go. Don’t be a prisoner to the baggage you can’t change.”-Tony Gaskins. A major obstacle in my life is the struggle with depression. This quote is excellent for the reason that it helps me to understand that I cannot change the fact that I struggle with depression. This is an obstacle because it has prevented me from doing activities in my life. There have been times where it has stopped me from events that could have been beneficial. This obstacle is not quickly overcome, but there will be effortless points. Depression will be an obstacle that will continue for a long time, but there will be points where it will be passed.

Every story or even a personal experience always has an obstacle or disadvantage. However, there is a way out of turning those difficulties from your life into something meaningful like being able to figure out a way to turn it into a lesson that you could learn from that. It matters to everybody because, without these complications, none of us could assimilate from anything just like we have responsibilities and discipline to educate ourselves. Therefore, any obstacle or disadvantage can certainly be turned into something good out of anything we face too because it will assist us to upskill in life even though there is a multitude of implications of some situations that cannot turn into something good for many reasons.

Adversity, as defined by the Cambridge English dictionary is, “a difficult or unlucky situation or event.” ( Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary, 2017) Lou Holtz stated, “People who succeed are people who, when they get knocked down by some adversity, get up; whereas, people who fail are people who, when they get knocked down, stay down.” (Landis, 2013, p. 16) In Dr. Landis work he also maintains a similar view. He lists four things you must do in order to overcome adversity

Some of these challenges will test our courage, strengths, weaknesses, and faith. Along the way, we may stumble upon obstacles that will come between the paths that we are destined to take. In order to follow the right path, we must overcome these obstacles. Sometimes these obstacles are really blessings in disguise, only we don't realize that at the time.