Personal Narrative Essay On Obstacles

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Personal Narrative Essay Bruises, are things that appear on your body when you’ve been physically harmed. Should you let that stop, no. Saying that to say, just like obstacles stand in your way from achieving your goal doesn't mean you should just quit or give up. Personally I struggle with obstacles that nobody else in my family does. Which consist of: self discipline, girl, social media, and staying organized.
Being successful, majority of america strives to be successful but during that process there’s always going to be obstacles in their way either minor or major. Well my obstacles lie within they are things internally I struggle with, for example, social applications which includes: snapchat, facebook, twitter, and instagram. They are all so addicting, within a click of a button you can just
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I eat, sleep, drink, talk basketball. I’m literally a historian of the game, it's hard to find someone who knows as much I do about basketball. Watching it, is very exciting and nerve wrecking if my team is losing. But playing the sport is the best thing ever, to actually put practice in the gym then see it workout for you on the court against your opponents feel so good. Trash talking is a trait I’ve seem to develop over the years playing basketball. Knowing how to get under my opponent's skin is something I specialize in. My coaches notice this as well, so they tell me to guard the player and antagonize them to the best my of ability. My role model is actually a NBA player; Lebron James not only do I look to him on court but also off court as well. When the odds are not in his favor he still seems to overcome the impossible. In the darkest situations he seems to be the light on his team cheering them on and carrying them on his back. Going to the NBA and being the best is all I wanted as a kid but height came into factor and with only being 5’10 I don’t think that's an

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