Overcoming Obstacles Of My Life

The lessons we take from obstacles we encounter can be fundamental to later success. Recount a time when you faced a challenge, setback, or failure. How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience?

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

In my culture, society looks down at mental illness and when news of mental illness gets out in the society, one’s reputation is pretty much destroyed. My elder brother, Imran, was misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder when he was a teenager. My family was still living in Bangladesh at the time and my brother’s illness was treated as a secret by my parents. My parents went above and beyond to hide my brother’s illness because we come from a culture that is quick to condemn parents for their children being abnormal, my family felt very protective of the fact that we had mental illness in our family. Family visitation and guests in our home were strictly monitored by my mother and my siblings and I were coached to make excuses for my brother. My brother’s illness shaped me as a person because I realized that I needed to be able to overcome the obstacles life throws in my way in order to take care of my family.

There is so much suffering people have to deal with in this world. I believe we are given an obstacle we have to overcome. It just depends on the person’s inner strength and will to not give up and keep trying. Nancy proves this to be true she is different from others in her condition especially how she refers to herself as a cripple. Throughout the essay she writes about her experience and her journey with MS. The way she goes about it makes her readers not feel bad for her but to feel proud for her because she has not given up. Its shows us that she’s accepted the obstacle given to her and she is not giving up even knowing her illness doesn’t have a cure.

Obstacles and disadvantages are a part of life, and will always be there in your path. Some of the hurdles will be bigger than others, and some hardships will be easier than others. Whether it be a chair in your way or something you can't get over, obstacles will be there. The question is not how to avoid snags, but how can you turn the tables on them and have a positivist outcome. Flipping them to benefit you, and others around you to have a better outcome on the situation. There are three ways that I know that can help you achieve this, being optimistic, adding on to your armor, and using them as an advantage.

Facing obstacles, it is an everyday challenge for some people. Mine was a baseball to my face, during my sophomore year of high school. It happened during class at the end of the day. Some kids were practicing for baseball tryouts outside the gym, which is where I had my class. The ball caught on with the wind causing it to change course, making the ball fly straight into my face, specifically my left eye. Two months later I was diagnosed legally blind. I was thrown so far off track that I lost myself.

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

I have endured many obstacles in my life and these obstacles could not have come at the worst time, during college. The biggest heartbreak being my brother’s death and my second heartbreak being my mother’s unexpected heart surgery. My mother had open heart surgery just a month before the passing of my brother. She seemed fine at first then out of the blue she’s passed out and being rushed to the emergency room. At this moment I am very nervous and scared of the outcome of my mother. She is literally my heart and if anything ever happened to her I know for a fact I could not handle it. She is the BIGGEST supporter over my life. She always pushes me to stay on top of school and always encourages me to finish. She motivates me to accomplish anything I want in life and to always finish what I start. My mom and I are best friends and the moment she went into the hospital I lost a piece of myself.

As a teenage there are not many obstacles that have faced, but there are a few. One obstacles that I have overcame in my life was the death of my aunt. During my junior year in october one of my aunt's passed away during her mother's birthday dinner. One minute we were eating and then the next we were at the hospital. It was so unexpected to say the least. This was the first death in our family in 18 years and none of us new how to cope with this sudden loss. I had never felt this grief or loss for someone ever in my life. I had to learn how to grieve and continue on. A similar thing happened when my uncle died last year. I had to be able to grieve and move on because I had so much to do with my everyday life and school.

Life have many ups and down and the bad ones are mostly the ones we remember the most and learn to be better from. Some of those obstacles we face might be hard to deal with at first but once we get pass it, we'll make ourselves a more peaceful person and respect life more. In my case, I was dealing with depression during my sophomore year of high school. While classmates all around me is still enjoying being in high school and meeting new friends, I was struggling. I wasn't doing well in my world history class, I don't fell love by my own family, and I even thought if I just end my life right there, no one will actually care.

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.

o prioritize school and be successful in my classes, I need to overcome my personal obstacle. I must learn how to manage my time wisely, dedicating the necessary amount of time at the end of a long work day to become active in the classes’ participation, and get done all my school assignments. I will work on managing my time even more as I continue in school. I will be using my planner and calendar and I will be organizing my time and prioritizing my assignments I will get done the more complex assignments first in this way I will not feel overwhelmed at the end of the week.

All of the adversities that have been in our lives, the troubles and obstacles, have strengthened who we are and what we do to contribute to society. We may not realize when it happens, but all we know is that obstacles don’t stop us, instead we figure out how to work our way around it. I have had to travel through many arduous and challenging obstacles such as moving into the United Kingdom with my mother, Agnes Ann Murray, in 1877. When my brother heard the news, he collapsed on the floor, dejected, swollen with emotions and realization of fate. He leaned against my mom’s faded and parchment knee.

Obstacles are something everyone has in their life. Some may have you thinking that the world is coming to an end. Everyone has this feeling one time or another. Once you overcome a difficult time there is no other feeling like it. The truth behind obstacles is that they only make you stronger. What might seem like the worst day of your life might just teach you the most important lesson. Complicated times help you learn from your mistakes and make you an overall better person. About 7 months ago, a night that seemed like a nightmare, turned into an eye opener to our whole family.

Overcome. Some see the word as a way of defeating a difficult obstacle. I would agree to an extent that this is true for some, maybe most. For me however, to overcome has a whole other meaning. For me, it meant to face my demons and forgive those who had hurt me. It meant finding a way to live my life the way that I wanted and to not allow my past to interfere.