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Overcoming Obstacles In My Life

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I consider myself to be persistent. I am the type of person who will not give up until the goal is reached or achieved. I have high expectations from my family, friends, and the people I work with. Throughout my life I have faced many obstacles that have made me contemplate on giving up. However throughout all of my struggles that I have gone through, I have been able to overcome these obstacles and attain my goals.

One of the many obstacles I have had to face was juggling between sports and academics. Soccer has been a tradition in my family. Everyone in my family has played soccer at least once in their life. Juggling between soccer and school was a stressing part of my life. It was hard trying to evenly balance how much time I spent playing soccer and working on school. Soccer practice would drag onto seven at night and I would only have a few hours for studying, homework, and my other extracurricular duties. During a game I had severely injured my knee and it became really hard to walk or do any kind of physical activity. However I was able to work through that injury to return to practice and also maintain a good academic standing. Throughout all the chaos that I had to face on school …show more content…

Having to deal with the fact that my grandma was no longer here was an emotional part of my life that was the hardest to overcome. For a whole week my whole family would gather at our house to pray for my grandma. That whole week was chaos because of all the things my family had to go through. For a while school was tough for me, I was depressed and solemn because I had lost someone that was really close to me. It was hard for me to focus on school because my mind was just a complete mess I had too many thoughts in my mind. What helped me through those long, sad, difficult weeks was my grandma always wanted me to do, do my best and strive to achieve my

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