Adversity In Our Life

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1.Adversity is common, we are aware of it, but we are left in the unknown of whether we will experience it. Adversity becomes a word that holds power in our lives, reminding us of what we have been through. It brings out a new side of us, a side that “lain dormant” a side we never knew was possible. Adversity plays a role in our lives and without exception brings a change, “a talent” we never knew was possible.The 2.people in our society may not have yet faced adversity, a struggle that affects you. I have seen what it causes. It begins to form a new person, a stronger person based on a side we never knew was inside us. Through my experience, I have seen adversity.
3.To begin with, many generations of young adolescents in our society may not …show more content…

As a teenager, I heard stories of my parents facing a difficult situation- arriving at a new country. My parents, when they recently arrived from Mexico they depended on my mom 's cousin to take care of them and while they did help them by giving them a place to live and helping my dad find a job in construction, they control them by setting a time in which they could eat and influencing my mom’s decisions over what to do. Such adversity led for my parents to 4. move out into a small apartment, with a low paying job no way of transport other than catching the bus every morning. Throughout all of this, my mother learned to understand the world and grow emotionally stronger; they both did. They used that saddening experience to work hard in hopes of not needing to rely on others, …show more content…

Nobody has it easy and everyone has faced through their deal of hardship. It dates back to scientist and civil rights leaders. 8. Looking at Thomas Edison, being told he was not smart enough and failing many times with the creation of the light bulb, in the end, he went to become a very well known man for his success. Many do not let anything stop them. There are many similar success stories, that can be seen by civil rights leaders. Through the hardships leaders like Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks experience with racial segregation, they were able to emerge as leaders and make a change, that would not have been possible without facing discrimination. If such well-known people would not have faced such adversity, they would have never made an impact and showed to themselves that they could be impacting leaders of the world we live in today. While there is an argument that some do not learn from difficult situations, it does not mean they did not see a different point of view. There is a difference between not acknowledging our change and not applying it to our life choices.9.While hardships occur, does such adversity arouse a talent? Yes. Whether we acknowledge our adversity to apply it to benefit our lives, it depends on us. While we all go through hardships, our talents show up and although surprising has always belonged to us. Most of the time we see it, but we refuse to change.Whether we acknowledge it or not, a