Overcoming Adversity Essay

There are numerous forms adversity may take in a person’s life: medical, social, and abusive, to name a few. Everyone faces these adversities in different ways, some are proactive and others may shy away from any adversities in life. It’s important to identify the problem of adversity in one’s life and evaluate a solution to overcome it. With this technique in mind, any one person can excel through adversity. After identifying the adversity, you must then evaluate a solution. In my own life I…

Adversity challenges everyone at some point in their life, but the challenge doesn’t matter; how someone overcomes it does. Because almost every normal person faces something they have to deal with, it brings out things they don’t usually face without an adversity. In many cases adversity makes people stronger. Although, in some cases people push themselves too far, like lifting weights. To see a result pushing your comfort level is mandatory, but if you push too far you’ll injure yourself and…

Bill Clinton once said “It’s how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.” Every person will eventually face adversity in their life. The person who chooses to face their adversity head on and overcome it, will be the most successful. When I was nine years old I was diagnosed with Anxiety and Depression, but I have chosen to face my adversity in order to overcome it. For many people mental illness is hard to understand if you haven’t…

In the stories "Breaking through uncertainly-welcoming adversity" and "Neighbor", both of them demonstrate how risks bring benefits to people. According to the texts, they illustrate that risk can be a factor that pull people to recognize self and the situation better. The texts tell us the benefits and such as a chance of trying new and getting experience, being maturer to deal with problems and preventing suffering next time. Firstly, taking risk brings people to try and learn new things that…

I do deal with adversity; it may be a unique kind of adversity, but this particular adversity truly depicts my lifestyle. Every human being proves himself or herself through some sort of competition, whether it is a sport or any particular game. Uniquely, my type of adversity is not the game or the sport. Although I play the sport of tennis, I’m welcomed with an entirely new situation that has differed me in the tennis society. At the crack of dawn, I rise up out of my hotel bedroom, nervous…

“Easy-out!” I hear snickers from the opposing team, while my own team holds their breath. The pitcher rolls the ball towards my eight-year-old self, pity in their eyes. It skids towards me, and I kick it away, pathetically slowly. Just as they predicted, I am out. For the rest of the summer camp, I avoided all the kickball games in shame. For years afterward, I tried to avoid competition and conflict of any sort. I stayed away from card and board games, and when my classmates shrieked with…

“You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.” - Michelle Obama. The quote connects to the novel Purple Hibiscus by the main character, Kambili, who uses adversity to elicit talents. In the novel Purple Hibiscus, Chimimanda Ngozie Adichie writes about a young girl named Kambili who lives with a religious and strict family and starts to find herself by visiting her…

fearing the years I had left with her. However, I overcame this adversity by remembering the greater adversity that a high school basketball team in New Orleans, Louisiana faced and overcame. Overtime, Kayla always had something to say whether it was about my looks or skills. For example, on January 16, 2015 Kayla sat out the game due to an injury, but she still sat on the bench cheering…

Overcoming Adversity and Personal Growth in Holler If You Hear Me and Lord of the Flies Overcoming problems, obstacles, struggles in life isn’t easy but it does have a positive result in one’s personal growth and life. “Holler if You Hear Me” by Michael Eric Dyson is a biography of Tupac mainly focused on events, people in his life, behind his career and the unseen mental physical struggles he faced. William Golding has designed a character in “Lord of the Flies” “Ralph” who is one of the boys…

conclude that I have made it through the toughest times anyone could ever experience, but I know that’s far from true. I feel fortunate enough to say that I have not been through the worst, yet the experiences I have encountered over time with overcoming adversity has immensely impacted who I am and how I view the world. Just this fall of my junior year, I made a verbal commitment to play hockey for the Colgate University Raiders. To me, this is one of my greatest achievements in life, not just…