Examples Of Overcoming Obstacles

Essay 2 Most obstacles that people face are more vindictive than what they actually seem. My obstacles that I have overcome are very interesting and how I got where I am today. My life has drastically changed over the years and I’m happy that it has happened to me. The obstacle that has happened to me was basically in school during my younger years, i wasn’t smart nor was I confident in myself to accomplish anything and it slowed me down. Most things that people have problems with in life is paying bills, scared of things that they don’t understand, or they don’t have a good background to get a job. Me, I was scared of school the first day in my middle school year I cried because I didn’t want my mom to leave my side and that I was embarrassed that no one would like or be friends with me. I was distant for two years because I didn’t want to be friends with anyone because I was self-inflicted to where I would hurt myself with a knife or I would think things that most kids don’t think. I never really understood why I did it but I did, and my mom never understood either which made it even worse. At school I was failing and I wasn’t smart enough to pass because I degraded myself so bad that I honestly didn’t care about life anymore, and it was slowly eating me away.

I felt worthless because of my mom's new husband and I never got passed the fact of what had happened that night. At school my grades where getting worst and so was I. I had to make a decision that would drastically change me forever and I went to see a therapist because they help people overcome what has happened to them. Mine helped quit doing what I was doing to myself and I had finally got better, I quit cutting, I also stopped getting bad grades and I was getting smarter