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Examples Of Overcoming Obstacles

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“ Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it” (anonymous). This quote speaks to me on many levels because of the message it displays and how some of my experience in challenging moments in my life help me grow. Most of these moment had happened during seventh grade through ninth grade and were issues that I had when my mother had just came out from rehab from being a drug abuser. Some of the things that I was struggling with were trust issues and other obstacles that had happen during this time . For example, the biggest problem I had was I could never trust anyone and at the time I didn’t see how it was affecting me and the people around me. It made not wanna be around people it was like a wall between me and people I cared truly for and I couldn’t knock it down. My trust issues were so bad that …show more content…

Talking to my mother was like talking to a stranger who knows nothing about you a person you just meet when in reality it a person who took care of you who raised you and yet that bound was not there. My mother always told me to take the counseling I was given and to talk on how I felt but I felt why could I just tell her spit the word up and tell her how I felt. I later started to express my feeling in a creative way like art and poetry and it was like my counseling and it helped me to be able to open up to her. I remember the day i told her how her new change was affecting me and what was really going on with me and how I was happy for her if was one of the greatest feeling to be able to tell her A feeling like I had no been carrying the weight of the world on my shoulder. Now I know that I can tell my mom anything that she will always have my back and show me unconditional

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