Each individual will go through that stage of life where you feel that you have hit rock bottom and wonder what went wrong, why am I in this position. I agree that, “Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.,” spoken by the Roman poet, Horace, when one is in a misfortunate situation, one’s mentality and psychological state would strengthened. Nonetheless, each individual is different and some may be stuck at that stage of life until death awaits upon them. I, for one, have been through that phrase, experiencing and overcoming challenges, seen a family friend, let’s call him Leo, wanting to give up continuously but still held onto that tiny shred of hope, and Ralph, a character in the novel, Lord of the Flies, landing on an uninhabited island, learning how to survive, and dealing with conflict within the group.…