Adversity and challenges



I think that I have overcome quite a few challenges but at the same time I have a lot to go. For example healing from my dirt bike accident I have just barely started to race again. It is sometimes very hard to overcome some of your personal challenges like for me it was to get back on my dirt bike and start to race again but I am and I am even happier that I am. One of the quotes that we got in English yesterday was “the robbed who smile steal something from the thief”. I started to think about what that meant and it got to me. I was sitting at my kitchen table pondering what that meant and I realized not just what it meant by saying that but the meaning. Because how I go about life is if someone steals from me they must need it more than I do.

Then I realized that by living the way that I see life is to do exactly what that quote says by smiling at anything and everything that happens good or bad then your life is always just a little bit better than it was before. Like for example, I was just chilling doing my own thing out on the street down by my house when I saw one of the people that I really don’t like. He was riding his bmx bike and he called me some names. I just blew it off like what ever and then he tried to show of to these girls that I was chilling with and he totally ate it hard and my first reaction was to laugh at him and just turn around and keep walking. But remembering that quote I went and walked over and asked if he was alright and helped him up and he was almost dumb founded that I would do that for him. It was just like that quote he hasn’t even tried to call me names or pick fight with me any more just because I did that for him I came out of that experience with a new friend and a better attitude and that is one of my harder challenges.

Jake