Reflective Essay: Is It Important To Face Adversity?

When it comes to handling adversity, I would consider myself as an egg. I would also consider myself as a carrot as well. At first I’m all strong and such then when adversity knocks on my door, I become soft and weak and lose all my strength. But then, I become an egg that becomes hardened and stiff after it’s been in boiling water. I get mad and become bitter as I ignore everything and everyone. I keep to myself and just sit there, all quiet, alone and angry. I’ve had many moments when I had to face adversity. There were times where I was a coffee bean and came out strong and made it into something positive. I remember a situation where I was definitely the coffee bean. It was when my friends decided they would believe to someone else’s words and decide to not talk or try to communicate with me. I remember like it was just yesterday. I walked into the lunch room and got lunch. So I’m walking to the table and I sit down. Everyone is looking at me with a mad look on their face. Not even 5 seconds later, they all got up and left …show more content…
It was my first job and it was fine at first, then I realized most of the customers were very rude and always free stuff for no reason. I dealt with it for a while then people decided to call me names that I don’t want to say and other phrases. Then my coworkers keep saying that since my mom worked there she would use “favoritism” and not get mad or yell at me while she would to other coworkers. What they didn’t realized was that I did everything right and didn’t just sit around like them. It made me feel unwanted even more and then one day I decided that it was time to not care what they said. I became stiff and hard inside and if someone wanted to say something I’d confront them and tell them how it was. I had no emotion at all and didn’t care what happened. So I stayed on grill and never talked to anyone. Finally, I quit from there and never