Adversity can be a huge battle that people go through, but people can challenge themselves to overcome their adversity by picking them up and looking forward. Not everyone has the same difficulty of adversity.We all experience different situations. when adversity …show more content…
When Amy Purdy was 19 years old, she moved to a place where it snowed. She became a massage therapist. She felt free, independent with complete control of her life because she can go anywhere she just needed her massage table and her hands. A couple of months later, adversity hit hard.“I lay in a coma that the doctors diagnosed me with bacterial meningitis, a vaccine-preventable blood infection. Over the course of two and a half months I lost my spleen, my kidneys, the hearing in my left ear and both of my legs below the knee” (Purdy). The level of adversity with Amy was hard core. She had no choice, but to deal with her dream breaking into numerous fragment and she had to glue those pieces back together. She wanted a “normal life,” but she figured out that her disability actually gave her an advantage. The greater the struggle, the greater the triumph. She always wanted to …show more content…
Optimism and adversity balance each other out. Optimism moreover means believing in the future and adversity is a challenge that everyone goes through. When people face adversity, either they become depressed and refuse to do anything anymore with their life. occasionally people who are going through adversity face their obstacle and have optimism that they are going to be all right through whatever they're going through. If people don't have optimism they will start to fret and worry about their future because they don't have hope in their future.The Mayo clinic states, “Optimism is the belief that good things will happen to you and that negative events are temporary setbacks to be overcome”(Brody). Optimism makes people think positively throughout life. Negative things in life are just on this earth to test how people will react and deal with them. Constantly society will start to distress over things that they are able to do little or nothing about directly.This goes with the quote because negative things are just temporary and people start to fret over them accordingly they can't do anything about