Sometimes things can be hard, but can get a lot better with company. When my parents passed, I was devastated. I was completely broken until my grandma bought me my iguana. His company there has helped me feel a lot better through and through. Dealing with death isn’t always an easy thing to do by yourself. Early into my teen years, my mother died, and not too long after that my father followed, and I wasn’t happy at all. “It’ll all be fine.” My grandma said. I was sure it would be; for some reason…
Dealing with death: the effect of love on death Death, an event that cannot be avoided is often paired with tragedy. Poem at Thirty-Nine by Alice Walker shows a daughter grieving for her dead father, Mother in a refugee camp tells the story of a mother’s care for her dying son, and Rosetti looks at a dying woman wanting her lover to forget her and move on in Remember. Death has been taken on by many poets from Thomas Hardy to Seamus Heaney, and whilst they explore death’s effect from different…
I tried to be optimistic every time I returned, thinking, “It can’t happen again”. That statement was proved wrong again, and again, and again. I felt as if I were in a dead world and there was no way out, no way to ignore the ominous truth that death was near and abundant. The life in my loving great grandparents’ soft grey-blue eyes was just slipping away slowly, and there was nothing I could do about it. My parents told me that things could only get better. I felt as if they had lied to me.…
Dealing with Adversity "All the adversity I've had in my life, has strengthened me. You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you." --Walt Disney Success is a journey, and persistence is one of the keys to deal with adversity or any challenge that we face. Basketball legend, Michael Jordan said: “Over and over and over again, I have failed. And that is why I succeeded. I thought they had something I lacked until I learned that…
an opportunity to control this deficit. In essence, I knew why I was struggling; I could work towards finding solutions for dealing with ADHD. At first the solutions seemed easy; however putting the solutions into practice was where I lacked. Junior year was when I found I needed to explicitly communicate with my teachers on material I did not understand. My toolbox in dealing with ADHD…
Tick tock tick tock! Constant unfamiliar sounds flooded my ears as I lay in bed. Something about a hospital transports you to a different place, nothing feels warm and inviting. Lying in bed on June fourteenth dealing with pain from the day’s surgery my mind enjoyed moments of solitude. Remembering things I rather forget I reminisced on the past day. Waking up at five I expected to by home by six that night, the doctors had all but promised. Going in to it the usual procedures happened, the peeing…
thought of as the easiest year by many students. However, I thought wrong managing between cleaning, cooking, and making sure all my school work was done quickly became overwhelming. I was doing too much with too little time and it started to affect my personal life. I was staying at home trying to finish all my work or I wasn’t doing it at…
I sit calmly and looked focuses while I give off a strong and silent type of personality. Yet inside my brain, there are millions of thoughts racing by and my heart is pumping fast and my knee won’t stop jiggling up and down. I consider anxiety to be my greatest weakness. My anxiety wakes me up every morning and drives me to school. It gets me through each class, test, and homework assignment. My anxiety twists all of my intestines up and makes me sick to my stomach but I still deal with my anxiety…
You need to come home, something has come up, that was the text message my mom sent me. My heart sank because I knew what it was about. Hiding a huge secret for nine months was eventually going to catch up to me and I knew that since the first day. I had hidden something from my dad and he finally found out. To this day, I think this was a major turning point in my life and the first time I really had to deal with adversity, When faced with adversity, I feel that I could be all three things: the…
I have never been one to deal with failure very well, so when it hit me square in the face I definitely had a lot to learn. I have always been pretty athletic and very competitive, so when I was asked to join the volleyball team I was more than thrilled. However, after just a few practices I could tell that this was not going to be the same level of competition I was used to. Not only was I the shortest one on the team (which in volleyball was definitely a disadvantage), but I was easily the least…