Survivor, Survivor: My Definition Of A Survivor

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Survivor, survivor means a person who survives, especially a person remaining alive after an event in which others have died. Another meaning of survivor is the remainder of a group of people or things. In Junior case survivor means never giving up on your hopes and dreams, fighting for what you want in life and being a warrior. Junior has face mean things in life such as mental, physical, and emotional challenges. At the end of the day Junior doesn’t let those things stop him in life.
Junior had to be a survivor right from the very start. He had to fight for his life as a little baby because he was born with brain damage. The doctors only gave him six months to live or the doctors thought he would become a vegetable and have major brain damage. Junior has proved all of them wrong. He is one of the smartest kids in his class and keeps getting smarter everyday. Not only does Junior has brain damage but he use to get seizures that damages his brain even more. Plus he has an crowed mouth that makes it difficult for him to talk
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He is a warrior because of all those obstacles in his life such as family members dying, being poor, and etc didn’t stop him on fulfilling his dream. Any other person couldn’t handle or put up with what Junior has to put up with on a daily bases.
What I told you about Junior do you think he is an survivor? Well in my eyes he is not only a survivor but he is someone to look up to and say “ if he could do it so can I ”. Junior has became one of my role models because when you feel like life is getting hard just know there are people like Junior that has it ten times harder than you. Just remember what all the challenges Junior had to go through to be where he is today. With all the things he went through he is a warrior that fights for what he wants in life and never gives up hope on what he dreams for. That is the real and truly definition for

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