Personal Narrative: Overcoming Adversity

There have been many times in my life where I had to overcome adversity, but my best example was way back in elementary school from the grades kindergarten through 5th grade. I used to not care about my academic standpoint or ego on how people looked at me. I had the potential to be a very smart and excellent student and excelled in school but I didn’t take advantage and did everything possible to not do the work. In many circumstances, I would have lied or cheated so I wouldn’t have to do the work. My grades that I was getting was not a reflection of my smartness but a reflection of my arrogance and laziness. My parents would yell at me all the time and have long talks with me because they knew I was better than this and tried every possible
The only test or assignment I took seriously was the TACTS test or you can say the EOC so that I would graduate to the next grade and not be held back. That’s the one thing I really didn’t want to happen because who wants to get held back and its embarrassing so I motivated myself to do good on it. I know my parents strong efforts of helping me was looking very unproductive in their eyes and they knew I wasn’t mentally impaired in any way. I know they knew that it was my motivation that needed to be dealt with. I guess that’s why they tried to motivate me like giving me allowance for good grades and they also tried to motivate me by taking my birthday presents and money away if I wasn’t doing good in school. That plan somewhat worked but not for long and not that much either. I was hopeless in many eyes but not my parents and thanks for that because as I hit 6th grade something hit me and hit me hard. I made a complete 180 degree turn from my past ways and started to do and act to the fullness of my potential. I started to get good grades in school and take my assignments and test seriously and turned out to get all A’s in all my classes. I overcame my issues and became a better student and person