Sometimes you try your hardest, but things don’t turn out the way you want them to. Sometimes things have to change. And maybe sometimes they’re for the better. -Nani, Lilo and Stitch Attitude. Acceptance. Adjustment. What do these three words have in common? The three A’s all play a vital role our lives, but more importantly someone battling a sickness. They can be battling cancer, a rare disease, an incurable condition or simply one low on the list of receiving enough funding to help better treatment options to be found. No matter what the monster is, the attitude you have on how to battle your way through, accepting what is unfolding, and adjusting to the circumstances you learn so much and very quickly, too. You quickly learn who are true friends/family by who stays and who goes. You learn how to read people’s character within minutes (you learn very quickly how to read doctors/medical professionals) and how strong as an individual you are. For years you are taught how the human body works and when it begins to “fail” you, in a sense, you become blind sided. As the body is “failing” you one questions will continuously pop up…. why? Why me? Why my child? Why my family/friend? Why her/him? Why now? The “sick” life is cruel, heartless, and dreadful. It doesn’t how old or young you are. There is no regard if you had your life all planned out or not. These monsters come in very abruptly, without a warning, no how to survive guide, NOTHING! Attitude. When looked up says,
Changes in life can be tough to go through and sometimes they can be easy. Some of these things are harder than others and some can be a better choice. Like moving is one thing that changed my way i looked at people. Then there is growing up, growing up can be hard. Last but not least there is education. These things that you experience can change your perspective on how you look at life.
It is important that a person doesn’t take things the wrong way. I try my best to believe that everything happens for a reason. Something's have happened to me that have made me question commitments and promises I have made, but I have become a stronger individual because of it. I believe that one should not become discouraged due to something ending the wrong way, but to take as much out of it as possible and cherish everything that it was. I think that just because something ends awkwardly or unexpectedly that it is important to use it a positive learning experience going forward.
Life is a journey filled of many surprises, and while one day you will lose 5 bucks, the other day you will find 10. Whether you broke your leg, you got the flu, or you got a bad grade, I believe that we can always make the best of every situation.
learned that change is okay but always happens even when it's not the best state of
Not many things in life stay the say anymore. You can expect one thing to happen but then all of a sudden its turns out totally different. There is a quote that kind of speaks to me from a movie called forest Gump “life is like a box of chocolates you never know what you’re going to get”. It’s so true but we as humans, we adapt we take on these changes and we adapt to them. I’m going tell you about a big change for me about seven years ago the move that changed many things for me.
Life is an ever-changing reaction to the different situations that we are exposed to. Sometimes these opportunities for change are forced upon you, such as requirements at work, at home, or at school. Other times these changes are brought on by your reflection of things that have happened in the past.
Athletes train for countless hours in hopes to help their teams win games, but sometimes they can’t always come out on top. Students put in long hours studying for tests attempting to earn a good grade. There are times where that effort is rewarded with a poor grade. Gifts are bought with the idea that whoever is receiving the present is going to love it, but the buyer realizes that they messed up because the gift is absolutely hated. These are examples of instances where people were trying to do good things but ultimately failed. In the novel, The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers you see characters that have the intent to do good, but come up short and fail. Everybody has instances throughout their lives where they will try extremely hard, but fail in the end. A lot of these instances may even be just the smallest things, but when they happen it is never a good feeling. You will get feelings of disappointment, and anger, but the problems that occur in Kevin Power’s book are much more than that.
A time in my life when something bad turned out to be good was the middle of eighth grade when i wasn’t do well in my classes. This situation was bad because my grades weren’t good, and I wasnt doing the homework. One day in class , the teacher gave me a note from the office that said the principal wanted to talk to me. When I got to his office he was telling me that my grades were really low and I had to attend the after school program for forty days if I wanted to walk the stage for eighth grade promotion. From that day on I realized how important it was to be doing my homework if I wanted to succeed in school. After like a month my grades started to improve to B’s and it made me so proud of myself. It made me proud because, I was able to
This is why turning points are significant in people's lives, it gives them the chance to change, hopefully for the
If they aren't around you much, and they're not constantly seeing you sick, then they may not know the extent of the condition. This can be extremely stunting to your diagnosis or even to your ultimate healing. If you get this one a lot, soon you can begin to accept it. Slowly you think to yourself, "Maybe it really is all in my head." They have shown that especially with mental illness this can slow healing because no treatment is being acted upon. (Link 3) I think a big part of this with friends and family members is the science of denial. (Link 4) Denial is something that I see a lot. People don't want to accept change, they don't want to accept things that affect them. Sometimes this is just their way of not wanting to take responsibility, or other times it can simply be that they don't understand, usually because of my next
Life is a chain of changes that puts people in different situations and every change come with its struggles and we have to move along with the change.People might take the changes in different ways and everyone has their own story that makes them unique from other people and changes make people live through same story again and again or never.Going through changes and adapting to them is the real challenge that you have to go through and how you handle it gives you the identity but it is not an easy path to take for everyone some give up;some don’t even start to get on the path to achieve what they want in their life.
With this being said I don’t anyone plans to get any disease or to be ill at any point of their life. Unfortunately, this is part of a process that at one point we all go through and the people and the environment that surrounds us is key to make this process go fast and easy or the opposite. One of the problems that Ivan faced was the lack of attention from his wife and his family. He felts that none of them was taking seriously everything that he was going through so this made his process more difficult because not only is body was sick but also his mind and soul were getting sick with hate. It is very important for someone that is going through a difficult time of sickness to have that moral support from the people that surrounds them. Starting from their doctors who are their caretakes to their families that become that moral support they need to keep fighting for their life. Thankfully I haven’t experience anything that has prolonged or threatened my life directly, but I know people that have fought against cancer and other illnesses and their main support are their families. Families that becomes their engine to keep fighting and behind them a good team of doctors and their staff that are helping them alleviate and fight the condition. Also, the faith they have in God
You can ask a hundred different people about their opinion on life and you’ll probably get a hundred different answers. Yet an overlying message that may be heard would be that life will knock you down a couple of times. Graduating from high school and soon being on your own, will cause many to come to find out how true this message is. Bad days are destined to happen. There will be days when you’ll be in the library with bags under your eyes working on assignment that is due in 5 hours. There will be days you’ll be so exhausted that you don’t even remember what happened in your classes. There will be days where all you can do is stay in bed, and that’s okay. Bad days are destined to happen, there is no way around it. You can ask everyone you know and more than not, they’ll say that they’ve reached rock bottom at one point in their life. Sometimes people forget that bad things are supposed to happen. Yet when bad things happen, it forces us to look at the good in life. Because in life, the things that go wrong are often the very things that lead to other things going
This book, by Spencer Johnson, reveals the truths about how we deal with change that happens in our lives which effects us in so many ways, either positively or negatively. The book takes an amusing approach to what happens when you don’t adapt to change and what happens when you do. In the book, cheese is used as a metaphor for what you want to have in life. All my life I wanted the nice house, the beautiful wife, the kids, money, the dog, the nice tuck to pull the nice boat, the great career, and so on , and so on. To me, it’s human nature to want those things and I eventually got all of those things and then some….. More on that later. There was another metaphor in the book, which was the maze.
I'm amazed by the clear majority of “successful” people who overcame adversity and hardship. How do we react to ours? Do we crumble like cookies under the thought of a challenge and avoid them.. or do we conquer challenges and own them? Well, I say, it's up to us. All this [stress] plays into a huge feedback loop that can determine health, happiness, and ultimately our "success". For better or for worse. Why did patients in our readings have such different personal narratives of illness from what seemed to be very similar and even in the same biomedical causes of illnesses? These questions highlight the view that there is a deeper transcending non-biomedical cause of illness, which then, effects outcomes of treatment and healing. I believe an attitude of resilience fostered through experience, plays a huge role in how people react to their illness which then affects how one responds to treatment/therapy. How is it that some people in life have suffered so much and at the end of the day, sometimes after years. not only remain intact mentally, but thrive in the world and carry on with their lives, despite their condition(s) and exposure to trauma. Against all the odds. Through personal experience and evidence presented in the readings. I will persuade you to understand why I feel humans may respond so differently; to treatment and the processes of healing. I don’t expect you to agree with everything I say, you are entitled to that. I only expect that you acknowledge that the