Personal Narrative: What Helps Us Rise From Our Lowest Point?

What Helps Us Rise From Our Lowest Point? I remember when I was in grade eight, I had broken my arm for the first time. When my feet was stumbled by one of my grade seven friend during that basketball game after school, I knew something bad is going to happen to my right arm. Based on the diagnosis from the doctors, my arm was at a level three bone fracturing. That three months of living has given me more pain even than the bone breaking itself. After the doctors putted the plaster on my broken arm, I was forced to deal everything with only my left arm. Yet there was something more, three months without playing or practicing any basketball, it made my body movement and basketball skills regressed a lot. When I finally took down the plaster, I …show more content…
It only took me about half month to once again master all my skills and rebuild my body condition to a stronger stage. Despite the fact that I was not really skillful even from the first place, I was still shocked by the speed I recovered. Now I’m looking backwards, trying to summarize what has helped me to rise from the bottom, I would say determination. The determination of being skillful again has motivated me from keep on going, and determination is what helped me to rise again and overcoming one of the most significant obstacles that happened in my life. I had given my trust in this answer for a long time, but now, I think, is it the only thing that helps people to overcome their significant obstacles or was there something more than that? I read an autobiography called Open Heart Open Mind, it is the story of the author who is a Canadian athlete who has won many medals for Canada. She was once one of the best skater and cyclist in the world and the first athlete who has participated in both Summer and Winter Olympics. Despite all the honors and achievement she had accomplished, she has explained her biggest obstacle that she suffered for many years, depression. She first time felt