Resilience: How My Life Affected My Life

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.

I have known many friends and family members who have endured tragedy. Some merely survive while others thrive despite their adversity. My observation of these friends and family led me to be fascinated with resiliency. My desire to better understanding factors of resiliency is what motivated me to the profession of social work. I have learned helping others feel empowered leads them to greater resiliency. For me, public service is the act of giving time and talents for the empowerment of a community, including those who live in that community.

Athletics played a large role in my life growing up. During my senior year of high school, I transferred to a new school where I intended to play football. However, during the last practice before the season started, I developed a stress fracture which caused me to miss our first four games. I was a few inches taller than six feet, and weighed around two hundred and twenty pounds, which made me one of the biggest guys at the small private school I attended. The time I spent recovering from my injury provided ample time for me to ponder what I would learn from the experience. My brother is three years older than me, which allowed me to have relationships with individuals who were living my potential future. I began to seek advice from friends

Just when everything's going your way, it can change in a blink of an eye. Even when things don’t go your way, you can’t give up. This is a story about my experience about overcoming adversity, and not giving up.

I showed resilience during my high school year was when I was in tenth grade. I had decided to take a couple more honors classes than what I was used to. I joined the yearbook committee as an extracurricular activity. My grandma got knee replacement surgery and I helped her recover when she got home, I also kept the house in order so that way she wouldn’t have to worry about cleaning anything. The year was extremely difficult because I had to keep up with honors chemistry, geometry, and digital design. That was the first year I had to get extra help in those classes during lunch and after school. Another challenge was that I participated in the yearbook committee. I had to acquire pictures from different events around the school and help fundraise.

In the science of resilience, Bari Walsh defines the meaning of resilience by using Jack Shankov’s definition - “a positive, adaptive response in the face of significant adversity”. (gse.harvard). Basically resilience is the capacity to quickly recover from toughness of life.

Life's obstacles are what shape us into the adults we are today. If it weren't for the experiences that I have endured throughout my lifetime, I wouldn't be who I am at this point. My life experiences have taught me to become knowledgeable about what it's like to survive without, and what it's like to be capable to succeed in life on my own.

I love training and building up my physique. This is something I have made a huge part of my life the past 5 years and I don't ever see myself stopping. I've found a passion that makes me happy, feel good, want to work harder in every aspect of life, but most importantly it has taught me mental toughness. A good majority of you know that I lost my father to a car accident eight years ago. For those of you that don't know, this was a huge loss for my family and I. This tragedy left us confused with what the future had in store for us. That day we lost our father was a day we lost a piece of our family and we knew it would never be repaired. Though I could have fallen between the cracks and said "F*%K life!" I went the opposite way and took my

Life itself is not as easy as it sounds.There are obstacles that need to be overcome and faced. Due to this, I am one of those individuals.My life was not always simple , there were conflicts and many situations that impacted my life emotionally , physically, and mentally. Many children around the world complain and lives differently due to the fact that both parents are not around. Some even live with a single parent and still whine, but luckily unlike those children I had both parents.Although I did and still do have both parents, it does not mean life will be filled with pure delight.

The Resiliency Quiz allowed me to practice personal reflection and self-correction in hopes of assuring continual professional development. As an individual this quiz encouraged me to use the skill of being able to readily identify resiliency to myself and those around me with ease. As an inspiring Social Worker this assignment reiterated to me the importance of being aware of resiliency and how it may have different meanings to people. As related to the actual quiz my analysis of my answers, combined with understanding the sections of “The Resiliency Wheel" and how they work together as machine to build resiliency while assisted me to helping to other with coping with or avoiding trauma with a learned form of awareness. This quiz also encouraged me to learn how to recognize the extent to which culture 's structure and values may oppress, marginalize, alienate or create or enhance privilege and power. In addition, this assignment helped me with reminding myself that I need to constantly work on at the minimum decreasing or ideally eliminating my personal biases so that they will not hinder me from working proficiently with diverse groups.

Adversity is most commonly defined as a difficulty or misfortune that an individual is forced to face at some point in their life. At many different times in my life, I have been in situations where I have faced adversity: in the classroom, on the basketball court, or just among people I know. The following essay will be detailing a major moment in my life in which I was faced with a difficult time or misfortune.

April 17th, 1981 began my story of personal resiliency. This is the day I was born to a 15-year-old girl. My mother didn’t finish high school, struggled with alcoholism and was underemployed much of my childhood. As an infant, my father abandoned us. When I was 13, my sister died. You might imagine the struggles of enduring these situations as a child. What you’re imagining is probably accurate. However, I’ll spare the details because I don’t permit those details to define my story. The resiliency and resourcefulness I’ve demonstrated in the wake of these experiences defines my story. The struggles of growing up with an alcoholic parent in poverty did not defeat me. Rather, these events ignited an inner spirit of resilience and provided

been the home to my family for a couple generations. Ralls is a rural farm community far enough outside Lubbock to retain its small town integrity, but close enough to utilize Lubbock’s amenities.

Islam, stands as the spiritual root of my resilience. Whatever the almighty does has a perfect meaning and he and only Him knows what he is doing. Concerning my emotion, they have failed to provide me a deep root, I simply can not use emotion to actually build up my resilience, however, playing on my psychological root can support both psychological and emotional roots. Today, I can say that I am an optimistic person. I trained my brain to actually pursue a goal whatever difficulty it encounters, and today it works. My cultural root are based on the idea that a man is only successful outside the household. Having this idea in mind, I have to be always excellence and successful, even in difficult moment. I have to find positivity and if not, I have to create way to build this positivity.

My guiding question was formed from my personal experience and passion regarding sports. Throughout my youth years leading into my senior year of high school, I have played the sports of football, basketball, soccer, baseball, and wrestling as well. I had gone through countless failures, successes, and experiences that have altered my character and identity, contributing to the person I am today. Failures notably consist of playing poorly during a game, leading to letting my teammates down or failing to win a wrestling match. Successes notably included winning football games, making a great play or and winning a wrestling tournament. With those successes and failures, came with experiences that shaped me to become resilient and wiser in life. Coaches and teammates that I have played with and for, have taught and guided me to become a better athlete and student than I was before. I was very fortunate in my life to be named the captain of my wrestling and football teams, and a coach/mentor for my town's youth football and wrestling programs as well. My perspective is vast, from actually playing in countless games on the court, field, to looking from the outside as a coach or part of the crowd. Upon high school graduation, my tenure of playing sports came to an end, which gave me an opportunity to reflect on my character in the past, to the present. At this point in my life, I can fully understand how sports have positively influenced me through all aspects of my life.