Overcoming Obstacles In The Pact

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In the story The Pact, three men overcome difficult obstacles which affect them all in different ways. They go through many hard things with their families, at school, in the neighborhood and just everywhere in their life. The resiliency in the story is very important to everyone so they could understand that even when you are in a tough place and you have the worst things in the world going on, you can still succeed and be strong to get what you want to achieve. The men in this story fall and have thoughts and phases of wanting to give up, but things come there way. They get right back up and keep going. People need resilience in their life. If they don’t have the capacity to keep going, they won’t. Sometimes you need help with it because it’s not always easy to pick yourself up and get where you need to be. Resilience is very important in your life, you need it to do good in whatever you are doing. If you keep letting yourself fail, you’re not growing or recovering from whatever brought you down. People also need it to feel better about themselves. ‘’ You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn’t mean it isn't hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals.’’ …show more content…

Not only that but you can also be more positive with anything when something is going wrong. It is easier to deal with stuff the second time it happens because you know what will happen, so you can prepare for it. In my life I had an experience with resilience. It was about wanting to give up and getting sad over things I couldn’t do when other people could. ‘’ I can see myself now, she said. And I can see what I want to be, ten years from now. But I don’t understand how i'm going to get from here to there.’’ I wanted to be a better player and go big. ‘’ With love and patience, nothing is