To overcome an obstacle means to defeat the competition or conflict. Obstacles can range from beating the other team in a soccer game to fighting off cancer. Overcoming Obstacles often teaches a lesson and only makes someone stronger and smarter. When Thomas Edison was fabricating the revolutionary piece of technology known as the light bulb, he was said to have failed at least one thousand times before being able to effectively create the beacon of light. He simply responded to his repeated failures that he did not ever fail, he just found one thousand ways that did not function properly. Obstacles are a very important aspect of life with a very important purpose. The hardest obstacles break us down only to build us up even stronger than
