Personal Narrative of Overcoming Adversity Essay

There have been times in my life when I overcame adversity. This is just one example that I had to explore beyond myself to get past misfortunate times. In-between the years of 2010-2011, my mom deployed to Kandahar, Afghanistan. This time frame is when I’m about 9-10 years of age. I had to learn new skills and improve upon some aspects in my life through this adverse time like becoming a better cook, leader, more academically focused and more independent. During the time that my mom was gone, I was given tasks to help around the house like for instance cooking. I began to start cooking easy meals and gradually started to improve at it. I gained new skills and strategies on how to cook, and after a while I started cooking more difficult food items. I became very good at it in a short time. I started cooking more frequently and developed a desire to cook. To this day I still cook frequently and make meals for my family. My skills I picked up during that time on cooking and the desire I had to cook had bettered me when she came back. I even took cooking classes in the summer to improve upon my cooking skills to become better a few years after she came back. I cook really good food now and I give all the credit to that misfortunate time for making me aware of the…

As a kid, I did not read many books. I have read as many books as my current age, nineteen. As a result, expressing my thoughts was always difficult to write on paper. I struggled to write essays and I did not want to read books to make up for my lost time growing up. I knew there had to be certain ways to solve my problems and luckily I was able to find it through facing adversity. I was stuck on a coding project; I wanted to create a trivia question game to share with my friends through the…

A time in my life when I had to overcome adversity was when I was in the second, third, and fourth grade. Everybody used to say I look like a boy and I have a deep voice for a girl. I was used to get so mad and be so sad because deep down I knew it was true, but I did not want people talking about me. My classmates would whisper, look at me, and laugh I hated it so much. It made me not like myself, the way I looked atleast, and less of a person as if I was empty inside. When it came time that I…

The day that would ultimately initiate the hunger for success was a day that I believed in myself and had faith in overcoming adversity. The week began in my freshman year when my close friends convinced me to try out for the Men’s Varsity Soccer team at my school. At the time, I had never played soccer a day in my life so, of course to anyone I was guaranteed to not make the team. Well, when I went to try-outs, I was struggling to keep up but I would always give it my all. Each day, I went to…

Adversity is a necessary obstacle that creates a better person once overcome. Everybody has experienced adversity at some point in their lives, and I am no exception. Sitting propped against my bed, a disheveled form of myself, I allowed my paintbrush to stray to the muddy colors for the fifth time, now mingled with salty tears. I resignedly raised my head and sighed, hands dropping down as if paralyzed. Tomorrow. I would look at it again tomorrow. Adversities are thought of extreme…

How do you react when you face adversity in your life? The carrot represents becoming weaker and soft, as the egg represents becoming harder and stiff, and the coffee bean represents changing the situation in full. Are you the carrot, egg, or coffee bean? I've had many occasions where I've reached in different ways, it just depends on the whole situation. When I was fourteen years old I was home alone with my step mom, who was pregnant at the time. Her water broke. I had no idea what to do, so…

I have experienced a large deal of adversity in my life. My parents got a divorce while I was very young, and for most of my life that I am able to remember, I didn’t have a father figure that was around all the time like the rest of my friends. It made me somewhat of an outcast, as the majority of my friends had both of their parents still together. Coupled with the fact that my mom was raising two, and later three kids by herself, the challenge was immensely elevated. While for many young…

Overcoming Adversity to Win the Championship The State football game was an exhilarating experience. The season leading up to the game had plenty of highs and lows and took hard work and dedication to overcome the difficulties of the season. Our team prepared long and hard in the days leading up to the State game. The game, much like the season leading up to it, was hard fought, but in the end our team came up with the victory. The emotions that came after the victory were indescribable,…

at my strengths in overcoming adversity by providing examples. We will look at how I can further develop myself personally and professionally while achieving my career path. It is important to know how much human behavior affects us every day and how we can help others. Resiliency This quiz was an eye opener for me on the different areas it focused on when asking questions. I learned a few things about myself in taking this quiz such as voicing my opinion. I don’t know how much value my…

It is not every day that we come across something in the archive that captures our attention and drives us wild with infatuation, but this actually happened to me when I came across Edward Browne’s The Persian Revolution, 1906-1911. The reddish-brown cover seems pretty plain and doesn’t invite the read into the text, but the books curb-appeal doesn’t really matter because the actual words written in the book will drive any historian insane. Browne’s message throughout the text is of a nation…