There are many challenges one is faced in life that requires great strength and courage to overcome how we get through it determines one’s character. In the midst of it all finding oneselves can be difficult because we are so focused on the difficulties. In the Novel “Wild From Lost to Found on The Pacific Trail” by Cheryl Strayed the book is about a young women named Cheryl Strayed who loses everything and decides to go on a long distance hike on the Pacific Crest Trail a gigantic trail which stretches from the U.S-Mexican Border all the way up to the Canadian border along the states of California, Oregon & Washington. Hiking on this trail is a way for Cheryl to find herself as a person and build a new identity for herself. Cheryl tells herself
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Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so i chose to tell myself a different story from the ones women are told I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me”(P.51). After reading “Wild From Lost to Found on the Pacific Trail” the book offered many useful lessons but there is one in particular that stands out to me it is overcoming fear. Cheryl was scared to go to hiking she wasn’t fully prepared for the challenge that was ahead of her but she did it anyway. Cheryl quotes after beginning her trail “What have I gotten myself into”? If she allowed fear to grow she would have ended her trail early on and we wouldn’t be able to see the development of her character. She would have been stuck to her old habits and depressive state. The fear she had was a challenge but she was able to challenge herself she asked herself if she could do it. When a person challenges themselves they see who they really are as a person. Challenge is a way for growth to happen in a person. Overcoming her fear allowed her to complete the trail and one could see all her past struggles were nothing compared to the greater glory of completing the trail. Being loyal was a lesson picked up infidelity is a horrible decision to make. It affects the spouses involved and can lead to depression & destructive behavior. Paul was the right person for Cheryl but she messed up big time. He
Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so i chose to tell myself a different story from the ones women are told I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me”(P.51). After reading “Wild From Lost to Found on the Pacific Trail” the book offered many useful lessons but there is one in particular that stands out to me it is overcoming fear. Cheryl was scared to go to hiking she wasn’t fully prepared for the challenge that was ahead of her but she did it anyway. Cheryl quotes after beginning her trail “What have I gotten myself into”? If she allowed fear to grow she would have ended her trail early on and we wouldn’t be able to see the development of her character. She would have been stuck to her old habits and depressive state. The fear she had was a challenge but she was able to challenge herself she asked herself if she could do it. When a person challenges themselves they see who they really are as a person. Challenge is a way for growth to happen in a person. Overcoming her fear allowed her to complete the trail and one could see all her past struggles were nothing compared to the greater glory of completing the trail. Being loyal was a lesson picked up infidelity is a horrible decision to make. It affects the spouses involved and can lead to depression & destructive behavior. Paul was the right person for Cheryl but she messed up big time. He