My Philosophy Of Overcoming Adversity

Everyone has their own personal beliefs on life and how to get through it to the best of their ability. Mine is to always overcome adversity and to never let yourself be treated less than others or talked down too. I personally believe that respect is a universal thing and it should be earned with fair and equal treatment. Someone shouldn’t just demand your respect because they’re an adult, a teacher or even a principal, president or pope, I believe that respect is a two way street and that you should give it in order to receive it. But once someone starts getting disrespectful with you I personally think that you should be able to give it right back to them, regardless of their societal stature because at the end of the day we are both humans.
The main part of my philosophy is to be able to overcome adversity. No matter how bad the situations get I can …show more content…
I had a lot of problems with this at my home school, everyone made fun of the tech kids because we are “retarded” for coming up to a different school to further our education. This is where I began to develop my beliefs about respect because I started to question myself on why I continue to respect and attempt to befriend these kids who kept calling me names and making fun of me for trying to further my education in a field that I figured I’d fit into better than a college environment? The answer is that I simply shouldn’t, because at the end of the day I don’t deserve to be treated any differently than someone who isn’t choosing to take the same path I am. But I was able to overcome the fact that I was seen as different at my home school and I passed my two years there so I could come up to tech full day finally. Up here I found that almost everyone in generally very accepting of each other which is a very good thing to have in an educational environment. I’m personally much happier now that I go here full day and don’t have to worry about going to