Describe A Circumstance, Obstacle Or Conflict In My Life

Describe a circumstance, obstacle or conflict in your life, and the skills and resources you used to resolve it. Did it change you? If so, how?
In August of this year I had my application to Texas State complete and ready to submit. I was only awaiting my most recent SAT scores to send my final submission. When writing my essay describing a circumstance or obstacle in my life, I explained how I had been fortunate enough not to have any major adverse events in my life and went on to explain how the most conflicting moment in my life being the day I started at a new High School.
Now I am rewriting my essay to tell you how quickly my life changed from one day to the next. This September, I received a phone call from one of my longtime friends

Then I became angry. How could he do this to the people that he loved? I was dwelling on the selfishness of his actions and couldn’t understand why he would want his loved ones to suffer so badly. I just couldn’t seem to get past it, I thought about him every day. I was laying in my room just thinking about losing Cooper and how I had never felt this horrible feeling before. My mother came in my room and saw me just lying there staring at the ceiling. She asked me what was wrong and I began telling her about the feelings I was having. She sat next to me and we talked about Cooper for a long time. After she left she sent me a quote on grieving. The quote was written by an elderly man who had lost many loved one in his life. I began to read it… “you’ll find that the pain comes in waves, when the ship is first wrecked you are drowning, with wreckage all around you. Everything floating around reminds you of the magnificence of the ship that once was, and all you can do is float; you find a piece of the wreckage and you hang on to it for a while, but all you can do is float,