Importance Of Challenges In Life

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“ Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze me, they are supposed to help me discover who am I.” said, Bernice Johnson Reagon. My parents always teach me that challenges are not exist alone in this planet, they existed as a part of our life in order to determine who we are? In fact, I think facing challenges makes you stronger and without them life becomes somewhat meaningless because we have nothing to compare with a good to.Facing up to challenges and living through them give us the experienced that make up our life.

Throughout my life, I have experienced many challenges from getting achievements whether in sports,education or my personal life. For instance, Last year, I had a soccer match against the team who wins the winning trophy
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During my training session, I started running 5 miles every single day. I often participated in a bicycle race in order to worked out on my leg muscles. The race was usually about 27 miles and 10 laps . I had to finish one lap in 5 mintues to be in that race. Oftentimes, The weather is too hot and I usually give up when I forget to bring my water bottle with me and had to deal with dehydration. In my second session, I woke up soon to go for practice field. I used to do practice with and without the ball to improve my techniques skills as well. After a lot of my hard work and dedication toward that match, I was getting better to play again. I improved my various skills. I was being able to change direction quickly and control movements of my whole body because it was needed to be able to change direction quickly while diving to avoid letting the ball pass the line and spread my body out to block incoming shots or collect a loose ball. Eventually, I got my position back in a team, because I was completely ready to play again, my coach was completely impressed by …show more content…
I came out in the ground, wearing my favorite jersey number ‘7’. I was so excited and proud of myself that I did not avoid the challenges and overcame on them. The referee blew a whistle, I encouraged my teammates and said, “Let’s go, We got this!” The ball started to roll. The bleachers were full of spectators from both teams. Like I said above, this game was the most important game so far because three teams were tied at 1st game with two games left. One of my teammate passed the ball toward me and I took and curving into the goal and making the swish sound on the net. “GOAL” my teammates screamed out loud. Right after that, when all of my teammates began to run at me and started hugging me. On the other hand, I was so happy when I saw my opponent putting their heads down. Lastly, After 60 minutes, the referee blew a ending whistle and points his both arms out toward us, which was the signed of our victory and it was not just a coincident but as a result of my hard work and

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