Hardship Reflection Paper

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Throughout life every hardship brings new experiences, failures and new lessons we’ve never learned before. As scary as it can seem, it also helps us grow and have a new and better view on life. In my life I’ve had a few major tough times in my life. I’ve experienced life hardships from agoraphobia at a young age to more recently parting with family. During this paper I’ll be talking about some of the parts of my life which led me to fall into deep struggle and how I overcame it all.

At a very young age, I was always shrouded by social anxieties and fears of being alone in the outside world. I still to this day don’t know why I was so afraid, but over the years my fear grew stronger and stronger. Before I knew it, I started hanging out with
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These ones though unlike before because I would actually hang out with them. I made these friends because the kept bugging me about hanging out till I finally caved in. They seemed like good kids so I decided to keep hanginging out with them more and more. I can't quite recall how but eventually from hanging out with this group of people i started smoking weed and drinking a lot. Once i started getting more and more into this drug scene I actually became a lot less anxious around people and I learned how to just go with the flow of things and expand my horizons. Sadly though the trade off was undesirable because the only way I could be social was if I was …show more content…
I quickly regretted looking and I rushed downstairs to go have a breath of fresh air. I told my work there was a family emergency and that I would not be coming back in. Moments later my mother was declared deceased and all I could do after hearing that was slowly make my way back home. I crossed the street and my dad was standing there he gave me a big hug and said “I’m so sorry Sam.” and he said another thing or two but I was too caught up in the shock to notice. I hugged him back and replied without any words.

I soon found myself in a deep depression for obvious reasons. I had quit my job and it felt like I was back in grade school. I felt only comfort while alone but I hated that the truth was that. I started smoking cigarettes a lot more and I got drunk a few times but it never was for fun. Thankfully though this period of depression and grief was short lived. My friends and family all helped me find the path I needed to keep going in life and they all reminded me the reasons why, even though horrible and tragic events such as that happen, life is not always such a bad

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