Personal Essay On Overcoming Obstacles

When I got home from practice, my mom and dad already knew about my wrist because coach had called them. My dad looked at my wrist and said that it looked really bad and that I should go to the ER.

The first time I encountered an obstacle was when I was twelve years old. I moved to the United States when I was only twelve years old. The transition from Ethiopia to America was very difficult. To start off I had to learn a new language and also adapt to a new school. Making friends was not an easy process because of the language barrier. I moved in December so there were many things I had to catch up on. That time of my life was a very dark period. The first few month of school felt like I was drawing in water, not only the work load that was given to me, but also just trying to survive in a middle school with no friends was very hard for me. I did not think I was going to make it in that school. I always asked my parents if I could go

Before coming here I always loved helping others and was active in my community, so I decided to go to my city’s Boys and Girls Club.

I consider myself to be persistent. I am the type of person who will not give up until the goal is reached or achieved. I have high expectations from my family, friends, and the people I work with. Throughout my life I have faced many obstacles that have made me contemplate on giving up. However throughout all of my struggles that I have gone through, I have been able to overcome these obstacles and attain my goals.

Growing up as a female Latina, my parents always told me that no matter what obstacles I face in life, my education will always be there to support me. People expect me not to make it far in life because of my ethnicity and the background I come from. My parents never got the chance to go to college, that only motivated me to want to show them that all their hard work to make sure I get a good education is not going to waste. Just because my parents did not go and neither did anyone else in my family, most are doubtful that I will not make it either but I am pushing to prove all those people wrong.

My face pressed into the cold soggy grass. Tears rolled down my cheeks as a sharp pain shot up my leg. All I could think about was this pain. I drew my breath in and out slowly, thinking the pain would subside. It eventually did, but I was motionless. What was wrong with my leg? I slowly gathered myself to stand up. My whole soccer team looked at me, stunned, no longer worrying about the ball at their feet. I whimpered, “I’ll walk it off.” Little did I know this injury would land me straight into the surgery room along with attending a new school my senior year.

Obstacles are all over life, they are big and small but we try to overcome them. Many Books topics are overcoming obstacles. Two stories that people overcome obstacle are So Far From The Bamboo Grove and A Work In Progress. So Far From The Bamboo Grove is an Autobiographical fiction book about a young Japanese girl named Yoko and the Danger of World War II the AUthor is Yoko Kawashima Watkins. A Work In Progress is a Book about a double amputee Aimee Mullins she wrote about her struggles of not having two legs. These two people had big obstacles and decides to overcome them instead of letting them take over.

In my life, I have had many obstacles to face but the main one that has always made a huge impact in my life has been the death of my father. When I was just six years old, my father passed away in a car accident and back then it didn't mean much to me but soon enough my thirteenth-year old self-learned what it really meant.

To better ready myself for the upcoming season, I ran almost every other day with my dad. One Saturday morning we went for a 2 mile jog and I was honestly struggling to keep up with him. The last stretch before we got to our house, my dad asked me if I wanted to race, of course I accepted the challenge. In an instant I felt the worst pain I had ever felt in my life in my ankle and fell to the ground. Once I was able to catch my breath, my dad held me up as I slowly limped home. I guess my mom saw us coming up the driveway because I could see the panic in her face when she met us at the door with a big bag of ice. As I cried a river my dad, who is the know it all of the family, assessed the damage. He declared it sprained yet I knew from the pain that it was much worse than that. The next morning I woke up to a softball for an ankle, before I knew it I was on my way to a bone and joint

o prioritize school and be successful in my classes, I need to overcome my personal obstacle. I must learn how to manage my time wisely, dedicating the necessary amount of time at the end of a long work day to become active in the classes’ participation, and get done all my school assignments. I will work on managing my time even more as I continue in school. I will be using my planner and calendar and I will be organizing my time and prioritizing my assignments I will get done the more complex assignments first in this way I will not feel overwhelmed at the end of the week.

The obstacle of my parents divorcing will always try to hinder my life, whether that be while I'm young or when I grow old. But I know it will always make me who I am - a writer, a loving sister, daughter, and hopefully, one day, a doctor. I will forever be the girl standing on the wing of a plane in my dreams, but I know my brothers will always hold my hand along the way, for no one obstacle will ever break that bond, because it’s who we are, the kids who save ourselves.

As a naïve of Richmond City I have struggled through many obstacles. The biggest obstacle I have faced is observing the children in my family suffer from lack of parenting skills and as well as the absent of a figure in the home. From my personal experience, I did not grow up with my biological father in my household, but instead my grandparents stepped in to assist my mother with my upbringing. However, my grandfather dropped out of school in the third grade to work on a farm that his parents owned; without an education the only job he able to obtain and keep was a carpentry job, which he held for 65 years. My grandmother also dropped out of school in the twelfth grade and later returned to obtain her General Education Diploma (GED) and a Commercial Driver License (CDL) to help her obtain a position with a nursing home. My

He tied his boat off and started to climb the cliffs. He knew that no one had lived to tell what was behind the cloud, but still he climb. He told himself that he was going to climb to the top. And he knows that if he was going to make it to the top he was going to have to push himself to his limits. But as he got higher the cloud got thicker and thicker. When he was about half way up he noticed a ledge, and the first thought that came to him was I can take a breather and sit on that ledge. The only problem with that was that there were tons of spiders covering the little ledge. But those spiders did not scare him so he just brushed them off. After an hour he ran into a chunk of rock that he could sit on. So he did and his arms were so tired.

Obstacles are something everyone has in their life. Some may have you thinking that the world is coming to an end. Everyone has this feeling one time or another. Once you overcome a difficult time there is no other feeling like it. The truth behind obstacles is that they only make you stronger. What might seem like the worst day of your life might just teach you the most important lesson. Complicated times help you learn from your mistakes and make you an overall better person. About 7 months ago, a night that seemed like a nightmare, turned into an eye opener to our whole family.

It all began with a simple broken foot. This was my first broken bone, I got the green cast, signatures, and the special treatment. Once my six weeks were up, I was glad to be walking and able to play volleyball again. That very same day, I fell in a small hole hole and broke the same foot, in the same spot. They proceeded to put an air cast on my foot. Once again, i was happy to be back after six more weeks, but once I was out of the cast and swore to never break my foot again, I was faced with an obstacle. I was experiencing some of the worst pain in my life. After about one week of this pain, my mother finally agreed to take me back to the doctor who diagnosed me with a broken foot. I headed up to the Baptist Hospital, where I would undergo many tests, such