Anne Frank was a Jewish girl who lived during the mid 1900’s. Due to her religion, her family was a prime target of Hitler who was the current dictator of Germany. Once Hitler had invaded the Netherlands Anne had to go into hiding with her family because they feared for their safety. The new home that they were forced to adapt to was the secret annex and they had spent two years there. During this two year time period Anne lived in fear and was in danger every second of her life. She still somehow under all this stress managed to stay bright and positive. It requires a special kind of person to be under all of these boundaries, stress, and pressure without cracking and being able to stay themselves and to be able to better themselves.
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I’ve been optimistic, caring, and courageous before although I don’t feel that its a definite character trait of mine because I’m not always optimistic or caring or courageous especially on the same playing field that she was on. One of these traits that I want to really introduce to my life on a daily basis would be to be a bit more courageous. Just like others, I have my fears although I let these fears stop me from prevailing and continuing on sometimes. I wish to be able to do something even if I’m frightened by it. One thing I can relate this to is my old fear of heights. I would never dream of riding a roller coaster or even being a few feet up in the sky. Just looking through a window from high up would have caused me to be a bit nauseous. I missed out on so many opportunities because of my fear and I only confronted my fear when I was forced to which is whenever I rode airplanes to Morocco and back. The very first time I decided to confront my fear I learned so much and I found that the thrill of being scared and confronting this fear was actually fun. Even though I managed to overcome one fear I still have a couple others and I wish to develop the courage to confront these fears head to head, toe to toe. This is so I can overcome these fears and overall be able to experience much more in my lifetime including fear, thrill, and the feeling of success of being able to manage to do something even while I was
I’ve been optimistic, caring, and courageous before although I don’t feel that its a definite character trait of mine because I’m not always optimistic or caring or courageous especially on the same playing field that she was on. One of these traits that I want to really introduce to my life on a daily basis would be to be a bit more courageous. Just like others, I have my fears although I let these fears stop me from prevailing and continuing on sometimes. I wish to be able to do something even if I’m frightened by it. One thing I can relate this to is my old fear of heights. I would never dream of riding a roller coaster or even being a few feet up in the sky. Just looking through a window from high up would have caused me to be a bit nauseous. I missed out on so many opportunities because of my fear and I only confronted my fear when I was forced to which is whenever I rode airplanes to Morocco and back. The very first time I decided to confront my fear I learned so much and I found that the thrill of being scared and confronting this fear was actually fun. Even though I managed to overcome one fear I still have a couple others and I wish to develop the courage to confront these fears head to head, toe to toe. This is so I can overcome these fears and overall be able to experience much more in my lifetime including fear, thrill, and the feeling of success of being able to manage to do something even while I was