The Importance Of Adversity In Life

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Adversity in Life
People need some sort of adversity to help discover who they are and what they are to become. Hardship leads people to examine who they are and to question what is important in their own lives. Everyone has a bit of misfortune in their lives, and without it they wouldn 't be human. If God made everyone perfect, then the world would be pretty boring. Adversity gives people 's lives a little extra, and although it may be hard, when the situation is over, the outcome is amazing.
A time I myself encountered adversity in my lifetime is when I had overcome many health related issues related to being able to conceive children. No, I am in no rush to get pregnant or give birth, but in about 10 years down the road I would like to
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When the entire thing was over my test results came back to say that my right ovary had somehow twisted and killed itself. The reasoning behind my ovary killing itself was due to a medicine I was taking for my skin condition and birth control. The two medicines contracted with one another and ended up hurting me. Now that I only have one ovary, I am 50% less likely to ever conceive and with my mother’s health conditions thrown into the mix added another 15% of no children. The only way I would ever be able to give my parents a grandchild is to go through all the surgeries my mother had to do. Being a sixteen-year girl and not even thinking about the future and motherhood I had an issue with a 65% chance of never being able to have a child of my own, but the more time went on the more serious I took the news. After a couple of months and a doctor visit every month I realized what was really happening. I probably cannot ever be a mother to my every own child whom I would give birth to. Adversity was present in my entire journey on stomach issues. I realized what was important in life and I went through many tough challenges. Those couple weeks were absolutely awful and I would not wish that upon my worst enemy. I did not learn any sort of lesson because I did nothing to deserve what came to me. Life throws a lot of garbage into everyone’s lives and we as people just have

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