Personal Narrative: A Personal Experience

Put the gun down! Put the gun down! Pow Pow Pow. The gun shots cracked into the air as loud as thunder. One after another. We live day by day not knowing our end. In the blink of an eye our lives can be changed forever. Its life, yet even in knowing this we never expect tragedy to find us. We never expect it to affect our lives and the people we know and love. I’m going to share with you the day tragedy found 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?

I was incredibly excited. School was starting tomorrow. The first few days were just icebreakers, learning everyone’s names, blah blah blah. Then the real learning began. Of course, teachers started to write our lessons on the board. I started to notice a few changes in what I was seeing. The words they were writing were just...black lines! I didn’t pay much attention to it, I just asked my friends what the board said. As the year went on, it affected me more and more, especially in math. I saw a 2 as a 6, and and an A as an 8.

Perseverance Essay In the face of adversity, most fail to succeed. Although, some individuals persevere. When conflict arises, perseverance is what helps you make it through the day. Not everyone shows perseverance, but occasionally some stand out among the crowd.

Through out my life I struggle with academics, I had no one to guide me. Everything I do is from learning from my mistakes. It was a struggle, but with each struggle there’s a lesson to learn. Despite struggling academically, due to environmental circumstances, my parent’s struggle and instilled values empowered me to work hard to my best abilities. As I sit here writing this statement, I planned to write about my academics. But honestly, I wanted to take a detour from the traditional paper talking about my academic abilities. I want to write about the journey that I took to get where I am, and how it crafts my characteristics.

Through these challenging times I thought long term and always told myself that this is not a permanent problem and it is one of many to come; always trying to stay optimistic but practical. My mindset kept me level-headed and always braced me for whatever was to come. During these times I thought my skill of perseverance shined because no matter how tough things got I always strived for greater and sought after excellence within myself. I was never satisfied with how far I had come. I, to this day, do not think being satisfied is a healthy way to live. When you reach a peak of something, you think “this is good enough” but it really isn’t. There is always going to be another mountain that you will have to conquer and there is always room to improve. I place my mindset in this form, not because I enjoy it but, because it always reminds me that I have something new to strive for and

A big part of the reason I chose to write about this obstacle is because of the lack of calamitous conflict I have experienced in my life. Upon reading the prompt, a few trivial struggles popped into my head, but I felt as though I would come off as superficial or shallow had I written about them, when I strive to be the opposite. The

In my life I’ve been given many opportunities in which I’ve had to make challenging decisions. I’ve often chose to persevere and overcome the challenges than to quit. In the first semester of grade twelve I had to overcome challenging academic choices. I had two unit tests and an Independent Study Unit presentation all in the same day. I did not look at the situation in a problematic way, I choice to approach the problem in a positive way to overcome the challenges. I used this situation as an opportunity to use my time management skills and my work habits effetely. I did not just have to manage my time around my upcoming unit tests and presentation but along with basketball practices and games that I had in the same week. I used this challenge

Describe a time when you struggled to reach a goal - what tactics did you use to succeed ? How did it change your approach to achieving goals ? Let me hear about a time when you were dissatisfied with an achievement- why ? And what did you do ? How have you approached the achievement of a goal in a subject or project you truly disliked ? What strategies solid you use to succeed ? Etc.

Even before then, it was no secret I was struggling. In middle school, I developed the beginning of my debilitating problems. Almost like a chain reaction, one obstacle would lead to a more difficult one.

An individual’s growth is measured by the overcoming of their adversity only if they continue to practice positive actions on a regular basis that block out their adversity. When one overcomes their affliction, true progress starts when they follow up by doing everything in their power to make sure positivity plays a key role in their life at all times. Coming from someone that has overcome her own adversity, it is very much so a challenge to try and remain in a positive state of mind. It’s so simple to sit back and be saddened by our downfalls, but when we recognize the upsides to certain unfortunate situations we find true development within ourselves. I’ve learned that in order to grow after overcoming adversity within oneself, it is important

My favorite passage from my writing is, “After surveying everything we had, we sat down and began to create our masterpieces. My makeover was first. Abbie started with a gentle stroke of some orange, creamy stuff, which I now know as foundation, and transitioned into obscure lines and violent colors of lipstick. I looked clown like, bright pink cheeks and frightening eyeshadow covered my face”. This is my favorite piece of writing because I think it does a nice job of expressing the lightheartedness of the situation and the innocence within us. I also think that I did a good job incorporating a lot of description into this portion of writing. This idea can be applied to many of my other pieces of writing, in that I always seem to heavily incorporate descriptive writing and

Let me tell you why im awesome. I’m awesome because I’m athletic. I’m a great team-mate and I also run fast. When I was younger I wanted to be a professional soccer player because I just loved that sport so much. And because of that dream it made me athletic. It gave me the ability to run fast, but best of all it made me a great team mate.

Another struggle was writing learning objectives. I had to research various sources about the reason for them, how to write them effectively, and the levels of thinking that can addressed. I had to shift my mindset from a student to a teacher. I thought, “what are top three outcomes I want my students to achieve by the end of the week.”

Throughout my life, I have faced many challenges and obstacles that stood in my way. No matter the magnitude or even if there seemed to be no way possible, I always try and find a way. Every challenge that I have faced always required my maximum effort and was followed by success or failure, but this one is different. This is a challenge that I would have never in my life saw coming, this was a challenge where there was no succeeding or failing, but overall it made me a completely different person.