Mandela Obstacles

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The struggle of trying to achieve my goal can be put in different situations. For example the playing the trombone. I was never good at the trombone from the beginning and certainly was never going to get any better if I did not practice. I though was just too hard and did not want to try, but seeing the other students being able to play it changed my mind. I pick the horn and practice every day until I got better. Even when a new challenge was brought before me and I failed, it made me want to try again even harder. Because of me determination not only was I able to play my trombone I was now able to join the marching band. Like what I did Mandela did not know what to do at first. After studying law he became well aware of his goals and wanted

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