Personal Reflection

I believe that all experiences are good experiences in the long run. Even if something seems to be bad now, you will end up using the knowledge that you gain from it in the future. In order to achieve a greater life, one must go through numerous failures and suffer in order to make them stronger beings. All the hardships that he faces, will in the end help him to grow as a person. Many people think to themselves “Why is this happening to me?”. I believe that the answer to that question is in order to further you in your journey as a better and stronger

Life has up's and down's but you can get through because people come together to help. For instance, in the book Fever, 1793, the Free African Society went around to help the yellow fever victims. The doctors thought the Africans were immune to the disease because hardly any Africans died. When people come together, like the Africans helping the victims, you can get through it. You can get through it when people come together, because everyone starts working together instead of avoiding the

I finally woke up feeling better than I had the day before and I instantly knew the plans God had for me. He gave me an unbelievable amount of strength that I had no idea one person could obtain. I finally accepted that adversity was inevitable and I was no longer going to let it break me. Overcoming adversity is one of the biggest challenged in life and when we finally have the courage and strength to face it; then we will see the purpose God has for us. God will never give up on you and he will never leave your side. I continued to pray until I was no longer in such a bad state of mind. I learned to accept what God had put me through at such an early age as the best blessing I have ever received. Suffering built perseverance and hope that I never thought I had, he took my dark time and turned it into a gift. My experience is not a misfortune, it is something God gave me to be able to serve others. In times of difficulty, no one knows what God is doing with their life but he made me realize what I was capable of overcoming if I trusted in him and never lost faith. He turned something so terrible into something amazing. This showed me that he is always there even when I feel alone and he is never going to leave me in a hard time. I am blessed to be able to be there for others in times like this and give them advice or just be someone to talk to. This experience has influenced me to take on a career in psychology so no one ever

“God gives his hardest battles to his strongest soldiers” Psalm 18:31. This quote from the bible speaks to many people in many ways. For me it shows that from any hardships that comes your way you can face it and push through it. I believe that through bad times and hardships God will help you through all things.

Does everything happen for a reason? Better question does everything that happens to one person has a reason for happening? Was this meant for someone to learn something out of this situation? Those are questions asked every day by millions of people. People, on a regular basis, are left in thin air trying to figure out why things happen to them, but one just has to realize that everything is in God’s plan. One has to realize there is a devil that is working on destroying people’s lives, especially if they are God’s children. There are many sources telling readers they’re not the only one to go through a difficult time that other people have bigger problems; therefore, the author gives the reader scriptures from the

People go through obstacles in life that God has given us to test on to see what choice we will make, and to see if it will be good or bad. Also, on how we will react on the fact that we are stopped in our everyday life to deal with this obstacle. Obstacles that god could give people are a death in the family, anxiety, depression or any other

Struggles show people's strength and even brings families closer. It taught me that the only thing that was holding me back from happiness was myself. I distanced myself from my family rather than staying together and being there for them. My mom was suffering from depression and I used that as an anchor to hold all solutions and replace them with excuses. I believe life will go on no matter what. I believe life is what you make of it. I believe life is full of wonderful and horrible things that we must experience both in order to become extraordinary humans. I believe my life has been full of challenges and confrontations, each of which has helped to shape me into the strong young woman I am today. Despite it all I know there is more to learn and observe, meaning room to grow. All these experiences lead me to a happier life in which has motivated me to keep growing, learning, striving, and bettering my life. I believe there is

Every obstacle life throws your way is turned into a good thing because it will help you gain an experiences. By living through a though patch in life humans just get up brush the dust off their shoulders and keep on keeping on. It doesn’t matter if their dealing with failure, lost, or death we always get back up and continue moving forward.

Although quite cliché, life's journey is truly like a deranged rollercoaster ride. At times, the only thing one can do is simply close his or her eyes and live in fear of what is just around the corner, and then there are times that one must let go of all the built up fear and anxiety, throw their hands up in the air, and enjoy the ride. It is a tad bit frivolous, how we are raised in a society that instills in us this prophesy that we can plan out our entire life, right down to the tee. We grow up oblivious to the world around, unknowing of what bump in the road or a twist in the path God might throw our way. Then, when something does happen in our lives, like a rather life- changing event, we tend to either turn our back on God, confused on why He would allow this to happen, or we could actually grow closer to Him, knowing that scripture states that everything happens for a reason. Looking back over the last five years, I could have never guessed that I would be where I am today.

Throughout my life many event have happened. Some of them good, some of them bad. Without the good events I wouldn’t have been able to make it through until now. The bad events taught me many things though. I wouldn’t have learned from my mistakes if I never had them occur in my life. Even at a very early age I was learning how to deal with bad things. I had three main events happen to me before I went into kindergarten. I got hit in the forehead by brother with a baseball bat, I got a PS2, and I had our cats and dog. I had some bad and some good times in this time period.

In life, there will always be obstacles along the way and sometimes they can and will break us down, mentally and physically. Negative events are inevitable, but how we decide to deal with them, determines who we are. Since I was a child, I was told to face my fears, and not run away from them, fearing what they might bring. In a way, those same ideologies would take part in my adult life, I began to use those same resiliency skills in order to become a better person, both in school and in life. By becoming exposed to certain concepts like the ATC model and the RTR techniques, I can say that I have overcame certain bumps along the road and how I transcended from those certain moments in my life to becoming somewhere closer to the person someday I hope to be.

Our sufferings throughout life have brought us to this very moment. Every adversity has given us a different soul from the moments before the unthinkable. Those moments transform us and leave us never the same. The challenges life forces us to endure, many times will leave us broken and feeling hopeless. Our perspective alters and either leave us feeling challenged to prove to ourselves life will be enjoyable again or so shattered we are unable to move forward.

In a greater sense of understanding, that’s why bad things (sometimes) happen to good people. To remind us of how frail we really are. To remind us how much we still need God. To get us to cast our cares upon God. To show the devil that he’ll never win. He’s still defeated. To remind us that God is still able. To demoralize our enemies when we come back from their best shot. To inspire others like you who have been through the same thing, is now going through the same thing, and will be going through the same thing or something terribly similar. To let them know that we’re more than conquerors and they are too. And then sometimes we just need to be reminded that the world is no longer perfect. One day it will be again. For now, there’s still much more work that needs to be

It has been said that life can never be carried out and truly lived to its fullest unless there has been some sort of suffering and pain. Mistakes are to be learned from, and a hard past can only result in a stronger present. Though many might find themselves alone in their misery the truth is they are not, everyone has struggles. We all have our ups and downs, but it is how we react to them that truly matters. Life is life and no matter what, giving up on lifelong dreams and aspirations because of a few bumps in the road should never be an option.

Whenever good things surround me, bad things always come around. The most memorable one was the time when my brother and I graduated college together (my first course before I ladderized it). Everyone was happy and everything was going well for the family, then a month after the graduation, the tides quickly turned around and my mother’s sickness got worse, she got admitted to the ICU in a hospital for a month and a half, everything quickly turned around so fast, financial shortcomings came and everyone was in a state of panic, shock and fear. Then came the month of June, my mother got well for a few weeks, sense of relief was felt by everyone. I finally got to continue my education together with my friends, I thought that everything was turning back to normal then while I was at school fixing my class schedule, my father called me and.. You already know what happened. It left the whole family feel miserable, mostly my father and our eldest brother who was working abroad. I realized that life isn’t cruel, it’s just