For someone to think about someone else’s feelings before their own is a very noble thing to do, but that gets even more so when that “someone” is only eleven years old. This is how the life of an 11-year-old her changed forever. The essay Finding the Strength to Fight Our Fears written by Terry Ahwal. Grit is having passion and perseverance for something truly important to you. Grit is having the stamina to keep your goal throughout your life. Young Terry Ahwal found out exactly what grit is. Living under the Israeli Occupation she decided late one evening, after curfew, that she wanted to visit her grandmother a couple blocks away from her home. On her way to her grandmother’s home she was interrupted by soldiers. Thus, she had to hide under a truck, she laid there completely terrified that she would be caught and killed. The entirety of this was about 20 minutes, though to Terry it felt as if it were eternity. Not knowing what else to do Terry decided that she would start begging God for mercy on her and save her from the men and their guns. Yet, as she thought and begged she remembered the words her mother told her after her father had been beaten by Israeli soldiers. “Put your fear and anger aside and pray for the poor soldiers, who were also afraid because they were away from their homes in Israel.” This single sentence changed everything, this single sentence is what was needed in order to give Terry the grit to get …show more content…
What kind of food do they ear? Do they have big or small families?” It takes a lot to get to this point to worry about another human being even when your life is in danger. Realizing that the soldiers are just as scared and nervous as she was made Terry realize that everything is not as it seems. That sometimes things happen because of the fear of what could