Personal Narrative: My Resiliency

If I could work with myself, I would build on the strengths that I currently had to build my resiliency. First I would have identified the perceived problem, which was me having difficulties adjusting to my friend moving, which caused me to no longer have any friends in the neighborhood. Next, I would identify the influences that are contributing to my perceived problem. The contributing factors are coming home from school and being lonely and having no one to play with on the weekends, which reminds me of being by himself and my friend moving away. I would then identify my strengths and resources, which were being positive, flexibility, perseverance, creativity, family, and the boys and girls club. After this task, I would then integrate my
For example, one of the best times of my high school experiences was playing on the football team, which was my first time playing organized sports that was not at pee wee level. I focused football so much that I neglected my school work and my grades started to drop. After the season was over, my parents told me that I would no longer be able to play football again. This was a major adversity in my life because I was losing the camaraderie with teammates and playing the sport that I loved. I continued to be positive and flexible during this change and I decide in order to play again, I needed to concentrate on my studies and bring my grades back up. I decided to get creative and found out my school had an after school program that offered tutoring and I decided to take that opportunity and attend. I worked hard for the entire year and attended this tutoring program at every opportunity that I could, even when I did not need to. My perseverance allowed me to fight and not give up and get my grades up so I could get back on the football team. This was also possible because of environmental factors like parents making the tough decisions for me and my school’s tutoring program that was available. The support from my family and the school’s tutoring program helped me stay resilient during the points that I wanted to give up and stop trying to catch up to the rest of the students on an academic