Overcoming Adversity In The Other Wes Moore

Life can be difficult, and people every day have to endure their own type of adversity, but adversity isn’t limited to just one problem but an array of difficulties. These problems can appear from many factors may it be a physical, mental, or social situation. The problems of adversity can be seen in the book The Other Wes Moore, as throughout the book, both of the Moore’s have faced different problems, with one overcoming, and the other being stuck with obstacles. When anyone is in the face of adversity, being guided to overcome will lead to success, while the less guided will lead to more stresses.

Any type of adversity can emerge at any time, but the best way to overcome it is to find guidance. It will help increase your well-being and

The easiest source of guidance is yourself, as over time you can build up on emotional strength. This strength is built upon your courage, discipline, and self-awareness. Building resilience is the key to overcoming any obstacle. In the Wes Moore book, the author Wes has been sent to military school and tries to escape, he then gets himself lost when he “never wanted anything more in my life than to leave that school,” but he lead himself to a “realization that it was not going to happen,” (Moore 93). What Wes is doing, is making himself face the facts and accept that it won't go away anytime soon. Yet, still many people don’t have the power to overcome adversity by themselves, and that's why another way of guidance is through family, friends, and other people. With people you can trust to stay by your side, someone to

Adversity is made worse through actions and bad choices, but it gets deeper once the person devalues themselves to believe there are limited options. It could even happen when the person has helped, but the support they get isn’t enough to guide them through the difficulties. A similar event happened to the other Wes when he found help in job corps, which seemed to be helping as “his quick success had Wes thinking differently about his life,” but the “the situation at home was becoming more tenuous” (Moore 142-143). In this case, the areas where job corps exceeds in is education, but it doesn’t specifically give assistance to what's going on personally at home. Even being around the wrong people has an influence when going through problems, as if they aren’t trustful or they might escalate the stress. This can be seen by the other Wes when he returns home to a larger problem. Due to Tony “moving in and out of the criminal justice system,” has caused Wes to try and find “more money” because his wife is “raising both Wes’s and Tony’s kids” (Moore 144-145). This made Wes think that his only way of getting money for his family is back in the drug trade, a financial adversity. There is always guidance through adversity, however, if the aid you found doesn’t make an impact on the exact problem, it causes the problem increasingly