Personal Narrative Of Overcoming Obstacles

From my adversity and hardship I unveiled who I am and what I am capable of. I ventured outside my comfort zone; challenging myself to start new conversations everyday and foraging friendships faster than a tempest. I also started to express my curiosity and discovered the metamorphosing world in which I live by throwing myself into the wilderness with Outdoor Ed. Most importantly, I embraced others and helped them be happy, to stop them from feeling alienated like I did. l saw that I held the power and I hoped that I could help others see the same.

The first obstacle had to face are my parent divorce. When this obstacle happened I was depressed and not do that good in school. My aunt had to take to with her friend that was an therapist I only went for one day, when it finish the therapy I realized that my life is not over just for a dilema. I was more relief and more ambitious to do all my work and pass all of my classes. The second obstacle is that I would struggle at school is turning in my work late when it was due the next day. Then, I had to overcome it by, making an agenda to keep my work on track and test to study for the agenda really helped me alot. My last dilemma is that I would work during school because me and my family depend on my dad sending money when sometime he wouldn't send us money. Me and my bigger sister would always try to find a job to help my mom to pay bills etc. Another obstacle is trying my best to have good grade and study in a correct way. I try to keep up my grade but sometimes it's hard. I sometimes

According to their BMI chart I was considered obese at two hundred and twenty pounds of solid muscle. I was told to drop down to one hundred and eighty pounds. The worst part about it was that I had just three months. I worked hard at the gym, three times a day, seven days a week. While going though this challenged I became homeless. I could not let this stop me because I knew it was all temporary. It took me just about a month and half to drop about forty pounds. It was probably the second hardest thing I ever had to do. When I dropped the weight, I was able to move to Massachusetts with family and keep up the recruitment process in NYC. It was not an easy thing to do, constant mailing, scanning, phone calls, and some traveling back and forth just to complete it all. Finally after a year of the first ever initial call I was being shipped to boot camp in

“Let me tell you something you already know; the world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently, if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s bout how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.” That inspiring quote was announced by Rocky Balboa, Actor: Sylvester Stallone, in his movie. Rocky is a perfect example of adversity, he faced it with his boxing career.

Going into my junior year of cross-country and already making it to state the previous year, there was no way I wasn’t going again. Well, as many people have experienced before me; I was faced with adversity. Now some people decide to hide from it and others seek to conquer the task. I had to choose between the two when I started experiencing growing pains in my right hip.

All throughout my life I loved to run; I even participated in track and cross country all throughout middle school to quench my thirst for a long run. Around the beginning of winter, of my junior year, there came a time when I thought I could no longer run. To further elaborate upon my situation, whenever I would do strenuous physical exercise, or even write in class, my muscles would instantly feel fatigued. It felt very similar to the feeling one gets when their hands have been outside in the frigid cold. I could not even do ten push-ups. Regardless, my muscles would not move as I would like them to. This became a painful obstacle in my daily life. After countless doctor's visits and no signs for a cure I felt hopeless, defeated, and disheartened.

They are many obstacles in life that people have to overcome. Some people overcome them and get it accomplished and some people fail at it. I have had many obstacles in my life where I have failed something or achieved something. Somethings in my life have even changed the way I act or the way I present myself. I was always a three sport athlete all throughout high school and I was always active, busy, and competitive and it killed me if I had to miss a game due to a short term injury or because I was sick. I honestly cannot remember a game that I was not there for or if I was sick, I was listening to it on the radio. Sports were a big part of my life and still are a big part of my life as I play football for Marian. I have always been active and involved in something for as long as I can remember. I would play pick-up games of basketball or go outside and throw the football with my dad and older brother.

A personal challenge that I was able to overcome was when my parents got the news that they were going to be deported. I remember I had barely started my high school education and I had been going through my own problems of getting accustomed to school and getting my grades up. It all happened when I

My resilience and determination make me a viable candidate for any obstacle that I may face. I have experienced numerous hardships throughout my life. I have faced poverty, I have held my only known relative as they died, I have been molested by a neighbor 40 years older than me who swore to protect me and give me shelter. I have been abused by a mother I did not know I had until after the death of my father.Yet, I am no less than I have ever been. I understand that the difficulties I have faced have given me something. I have learned to be thankful, to persevere, to stand up, and to settle for no less than I am worth. I will face any obstacle with courage and dignity and I will let nothing bar me from bettering myself or others. I am determined

A trait that can be considered an achievement would be my ability to persevere, as a survivor. My sister, Leanne, spent a majority of her life in and out of hospitals due to a genetic anomaly. Even with knowledge of the gravity of the situation, her death came as a great shock to me. She moved back to Canada with my mother, after my parents’ divorce, so my time with her became limited. One month after my son Jacob was born I planned an introductory visit to his aunt Leanne for the first time. However, three days earlier I received the phone call to forever change my world. Eight years later I found myself fighting for my son’s life. Jacob complained of physical ailments, however, doctors deemed me a hysterical mother and dismissed them.

A huge obstacle that I faced through my life was when I was being bullied in seventh grade. That school year was one of the toughest and scariest time of my life. During that time period I wasn’t really a social person. I was mainly an outsider since I was all alone most of the time. Also I didn't really have the best physical appearance like everyone else, which made me feel like a outcast. I didn’t have anyone to hang with since it was a new school and I had no classes with my friends

Growing up as the oldest of twelve siblings molded me into a person who is very good at negotiating, managing, decision-making, and a trendsetter. Knowing the role I was born into at a young age, I knew I had try my hardest to succeed even if knew I was not going to successful. Thus, meaning everything I did in life I tried to do it to the best of my abilities, even if I was not good at it. For example, I had to withdraw from Brief Calculus the first time I took the course. However, instead of giving up I retook the course a second time and I tried my hardest to understand the material, I reviewed, studied, and seek help till I couldn’t stand to hear or look at the material; What did I receive after all the work I placed into it? A grade

My biggest challenge was not being able to interact with my fellow classmates because I did not speak English at the time. At times, I felt lonely and found it difficult to make friends. I also struggled to succeed academically due to my language barrier. In these adversities, I reflected on my parents’ hard work and what they went through to get me here, and it was the motivation I needed to help me overcome the challenges I was facing. I overcame this obstacle through perseverance, and managed to succeed both in my social and academic life though

Beep, beep, beep! The oven timer had just gone off, and lunch was finally ready. Starving, I tried to turn around and quickly go to the oven, but as I turned, my left leg didn’t. I crashed on the floor, screaming in pain, not thinking anymore about how my lunch was still in the oven. Desperately, I tried to get up, so I could at least put ice on my knee, which was now quite red and swollen. The agrivating pain shot up through my leg as I attempted to straighten it. Taking a deep breath, I thought of the situation I was in, and all the plausible solutions that there could be. First off, my parents were at a funeral. With their phones off, I wouldn’t be able to contact them whatsoever. My younger brothers were home, but they were playing video games upstairs, and they wouldn’t be much help. I figured that my best option was to wait for my

Sometimes hardships and challenges are one of the best thing that could happen to you. In my junior year football season i rushed for over 1200 yards and was only the 2nd to rush over 1000 at this school, i was first team running back all region and i had article written about me and how i was gonna have a big senior season so i had a lot of pressure on me. My senior year comes and right before my football season started i tore a ligament in my knee that could possibly end my season. I was devastated i couldn't do what i love to do, i went to an orthopedic to figure out my options and it was either call it a season and get my surgery or i could deal with the injury and do what i can for as long as i could. I didn't want to let my senior season go just like that and i didnt want to let down my brothers that worked all my 4 years together with day in and day out.