Overcoming Obstacles Faced Through My Life

I have always felt like an outsider. I wish I would have not cared earlier on about what people thought about me it would help deal with everything I went through .A thing to consider is that if I didn’t get bullied I wouldn’t be this confident person I am today.

A major obstacle that I faced was overcoming the abuse that I suffered and getting help for it. My father was physically, sexually, mentally, and abusive towards me, my sister, and my mom. This impacted me in many ways as you can imagine. I was traumatized, and I hid it until I was fourteen and was sent to rehab. I began to act out in many ways to try and cope with, but it ended up backfiring and causing me a lot more problems. I was kicked out of two schools one was White Station and the second one Lausanne Collegiate School. I was let back in to Lausanne because I received help and overcame it. The reason I am telling you this is because I have survived all of this and I have become a different person. I acted out in drugs and alcohol along with skipping

Starting middle school was a mixture of anxiety and excitement. There was a brand new campus to explore, but we were also nervously anticipating the academic program that was about to begin. Most of my grade had been together since the age of four and by this time there were clear social divides. There were the girls who were seen as popular, and then there was everybody else. You could say that I was part of the popular crowd, though at the time I didn’t notice myself standing apart from the others. As a group of friends we got on well, we’d hang out, go to the cinema, have sleepovers, all the usual things friends do. Then things gradually started to change.

The schools were small and there wasn’t much diversity. Kids used to make fun of me for my name or color and it got so bad that we had to go to the principal. He had our whole class switch lunches so were with kids our age instead of the older ones bullying us. The other kids would spread rumors about me, because I was a vegetarian or because we lived in our hotel which had an attached “house” to it. They wouldn’t include any of the younger kids and if I stood up to them they would tell on me. I don’t let other students push me around now. I am who I am. I can’t change that and I won’t. When I moved here in 4 grade, I was still bullied occasionally, but I had good friends who stuck by my side and still do. I want to be the person others were to me through those rocky

The first challenge I faced was fitting in socially. I frequently experienced being ignored and laughed at. These days were tough and I could only tell myself that things would get

The obstacles that I went through was having to not think about my dad’s death and also when my mom got sick and she had to have 4 surgeries because she had arthritis.I was only 5 years old when my dad died he was out and saw his friend getting beat up and went to go get the guy off his friend and the other guy had a machete and stabbed my dad with it. That night my mom got a call from the police saying that my dad has been killed. I know I was young, but it was hard trying to get over the fact that I don’t have a dad anymore because of some guy who thought it was right to kill him. It was tough on my family we couldn’t get over it he died on my sister’s birthday that midnight. I tried a lot of things to forget about my dad’s death, but it just couldn’t help me. When i started getting older and older I just told myself that he is in a better place and that he is watching over us and not to

As I got turned onto my back, fighting for my life, the referee’s hand slaps the mat, and my career of wrestling was over. Throughout all the times I worked out and practiced as hard as I could, my only desire for wrestling was to go to states. Knowing I had the potential, my wrestling coach used life lessons to motivate me throughout the obstacles I faced. Although I never went to states, the lessons I’ve learned from the sport apply to any desire I have in life today. Furthermore, I’ve learned that “some desire is necessary to keep life in motion” to accomplish the goals I have in life.

I haven’t been bullied since but it still left emotional scars considering the only person I told about was my teacher, she fixed it but I still felt a large amount of fear of older kids. That fear has since gone away but I still am affected by it. However, home for me wasn’t all that good either. My mother had bad anger issues and usually snapped at the littlest of things, but when she wasn’t angry she was great. I dealt with it however and tried to maintain a relationship with her even though things are

Booker T. Washington once wrote “Successes isn’t measured by the position you reach in life. It’s measured by the obstacles you overcome” An obstacle I had to face and overcome would be the time I injured my ankle. How did I overcome this obstacle you may ask? I overcame this obstacle by being positive and having a good attitude, almost every step of the way.

Everyday people struggle with various hurdles, how they jump over them is a different story. Like many other young preteens in the world I also had hurdles to learn how to jump over. Learning how to handle even the shortest hurdle was a struggle, the feeling of my emotions going up and down and just everywhere was more than overwhelming. As hard of the obstacle was I did learn how to understand and handle even the tallest hurdle in my life. When I was about fourteen, I found out my grandma had breast cancer. At that time, I didn’t necessarily know what that meant or what was going to happen. I was confused at first and then the symptoms started to creep up on her. The first thing I noticed was my grandma losing hair being so young and figuring

The first time I encountered an obstacle was when I was twelve years old. I moved to the United States when I was only twelve years old. The transition from Ethiopia to America was very difficult. To start off I had to learn a new language and also adapt to a new school. Making friends was not an easy process because of the language barrier. I moved in December so there were many things I had to catch up on. That time of my life was a very dark period. The first few month of school felt like I was drawing in water, not only the work load that was given to me, but also just trying to survive in a middle school with no friends was very hard for me. I did not think I was going to make it in that school. I always asked my parents if I could go

During middle school, I used to always get made fun for everything, especially my grades, they used to get called a nerd. But for some reason, everybody wanted the answers to the homework that was due and help on a quiz or test whenever they were stuck. I used to feel very bad of myself because I thought I would never fit in with “cool kids” who just asked me for answers. This made me less confident and have low-self-esteem because I didn’t have any real friends. I triumphed and fought my very hardest to focus on my success and growth. I faced many challenges while doing this, for example my favorite teacher had passed away, I was going through a lot with my family and I didn’t really have friends. It was during these struggles

Albeit I was a rather outgoing child, as I matured my self-esteem began to dwindle. I was harassed exceedingly throughout elementary and middle school, and because of this bullying, my confidence suffered considerably. Due to these and several other matters, including that of finance, I transferred schools in the fourth grade. This was probably one of the most beneficial events to occur in my life, as though I have suffered some contempt

haven’t had much adversity at all in my life. Let’s face it, I’m a white kid growing up

I wasn’t really allowed to be exposed to things, such as what sex was and any music other than religious songs, this only started to change towards the end of middle school when I was given permission to buy my first CD. Bullying has also had a significant impact on my life as a child and likely affected my self-esteem and confidence. I began being bullied soon after I transferred to the public school in my neighborhood. I was slightly chubby and wore baggy hand-me-downs so I was an easy target and was constantly teased about my weight and appearance by other students even people whom I believed were my friends. Another significant bullying event that happened when I was in middle school and unfortunately one if the most popular chose me as his target of sexual harassment and when I got up the courage to tell a teacher and he was suspended the day before our winter break. The situation made a turn for the worse when we returned from winter break because the whole class turned against me and I became the snitch and was shunned and mistreat so much I had to