Response 1
Throughout the years, I have faced many challenges: some of these obstacles were both physical and mental ,and some were difficult to overcome, leaving a serious mark in my life. The most difficult challenges for me to overcome were mental as they left serious scars in my mentally, the most difficult was having doubts about whether I matter to anyone. This challenge has been going on ever since I was a child and I always asked myself “do I matter to anyone?”. I didn’t really understand why I asked this question to myself, but this question left me wondering and caused serious effects in academics and my social life. This questions caused me to distance myself from my friends since I thought that they didn’t really care about me. My academics started to show that I was doing less work since I thought what was the point of doing this. I really couldn’t find anyone to talk to and I realized that the only person that could help me was me. I realized that this question was doing nothing but make me feel insignificant, so I decided to just stop asking that question and just simply distract myself. Eventually, I started to stop asking that question and I felt like I overcame this challenge, I felt like I was me again. Right now this challenge does come back to me, and I do sometimes ask that question but I don’t feel as bad as before. This challenge did affect me in a lot of ways both mentally and physically, but now I just try to keep myself busy with either friends or just drawing on my sketchbook. I do believe now that I am better person learning from this experience since I can now help people who are also asking that question and just help them out by knowing there is a way to overcome this challenge. |
Edson |
Response 2
I have learned a lot throughout the years and experienced many challenges in many education, some I still struggle to overcome. One of my biggest challenges is my laziness in education as I do tend to be lazy and not do assignments and fail my classes. This educational barrier has been holding me back and causing me to fail my classes, do terrible in my tests, and disappoint my parents. This barrier has happened worst in my life during middle school and freshman year of high school. I asked myself “why am I so lazy?” “Why can’t I just go home and do what I need to do?”. I asked myself these questions and I couldn’t think of a response, I wondered is it my mentality on education or what. After failing English and history for the fourth time in my life, one of my friends told me how important education was and how education can lead to a better life. He asked me “whatever goal you have in life you can achieve it with an education. I finally had an answer to my question and it was that in order to achieve my goal of helping everyone I would need an education to do it. After, my question was finally answered, my main goal now is to help people by joining the police department and becoming a detective. I soon realized what I needed to do to become a detective, so I started to work harder and get better grades. I got my act together and I am continuing on trying to pursue my goal of becoming a detective. I learned from this educational barrier that laziness is just a choice, I chose to be lazy and saw it did nothing but hurt me, choosing not to be lazy will help me achieve my goals and pursue my dreams. Response 3
Many of my friends always say that I have many talents, some people think I don’t have any talents, and I think I do have talents. I always had a talent for drawing and even though I don’t consider myself a good artist, I feel that I can at least do something that most can’t. I do also have a talent of computer programming and making good relationships with people. However, I believe for my most meaningful talent is my will to overcome any obstacle and push myself beyond my limit. I consider it my most meaningful talent since I have had since I was born, and it also helped create some of my talents. My will to overcome has helped me out the most in life whether it's physical or mental training, making a friend or trying to see an old one, trying to understand something I can’t understand, enduring pain, or trying to do the impossible. This talent of mine didn’t come naturally, I had teach myself how to push myself using my will and trying to overcome these challenges. I consider my will to be the greatest talent I have since not that many people have a will to do something or achieve something greater in life. My will has changed over time to the point where I consider my will to be endless, and I often use it everyday whether it be in school, at the gym or just doing anything in general. Before my will was weak since I was just a child, but now my will has surpassed new heights. My will has pushed my body and my mind to heights and I think that my talent will continue to become stronger as time goes on. |
Response 4
Ever since I was a child I was always called a creative person, whether it be my friends, family or loved ones, they considered me a creative person and I have said I will use that creativity to help people. I do believe that my creativity has helped me out in life in many ways. Most of the time I use my creativity to help me make new friends by using my knowledge of people and body language. I am creative artistically but I am also creative with making new friends and helping people feel better when they are sad. One time on the beach I saw a stranger that was crying, I went up to them and said “is everything alright” she said she was fine but I sat next to her said “You know talking about it will make you feel a little better”. She said a friend died a few days ago. I told her sorry to hear about that, I told that the pain you feel will go away and I said I understand how you feel since I have had experience that. After that she hugged me and told me thank you, she said many walked passed her and said nothing. We have been friends ever since that day. Using my skills about people and my experiences, I help people feel better about what’s making them sad and I start to create good friends. I did learn these skills from someone else: when I felt alone and sad, she helped and told me that the pain I felt will go away and that I shouldn’t just cry about feeling alone. She said I should help people and make them feel better and make them happy and eventually someone might help me. I used my creativity and skills I learned from her to make new good friends and help people with problems they have to make them feel better. |
Final Response
I remember when I was a child my teacher assigned me to write a paper about what makes a person’s identity and I did. I wrote “I believe what makes a person’s identity are their actions and beliefs”. Later, after she read everyone's paper she told me that my answer was the best response she's seen,while most of my classmates wrote three paragraph essays, I only wrote one sentence and she said it was enough. I have many ways to define my identity, but for me my identity doesn’t involve my appearance but rather my actions and beliefs. For me ethnicity and race doesn’t play a role for my identity because I don’t really care about race or ethnicity when I see someone or trying to understand them. To me race and ethnicity don’t play a factor in identity as it only shows what people see on the outside rather than looking deeper within. I believe that the factors of my identity are my beliefs and my actions because I think that the thing that truly tells you what type of a person I am is by seeing my actions and seeing what I believe in. I do believe my talents also play a key factor in my identity because most of my talents revolve around art or creation of something,which shows how creative I am as a person. Another factor in my identity are my values because my values shows you what kind of a person am I. I value perseverance, friendship and kindness the most because those are the most meaningful qualities I usually find in a person. Before when I was a child I use to think that identity meant knowing about your heritage and understanding your culture, but now I see that you don’t need to know your culture or ethnicity to find your identity. I don’t believe that my family influences my identity because I am not like my family I am different from everyone in my family. I am different from my family because I have different values and beliefs, they value money and believe that money will solve all your problems while I values strength and perseverance and believe that we all can make the world better if we tried to help it. To me my family and race only show my background and where I came from, but it doesn’t show who I am as a person. I don’t believe that my community, heritage, gender or race show my identity, it only shows what I look like to other people. What makes me so unique is that I don’t judge people by race, community, gender or heritage, I try to see deep within people and understand them rather than take a quick glance and judge them by the way they look. I am unique because I understood how the world worked at a very young age and I seen the good and the bad in the world, but this helped shape my identity because I do see the bad in everyone but I try to see the good in people. No matter how badly someone treats I would still treat them like anyone else, I would show kindness even when I had bad days. All these things make me unique my kindness, my perseverance, my will, my strength, and my creativity as they all show what type of a person I am. Who I am is someone who cares about everyone, I am someone who has limitless will and strength, I am someone who values friendship and kindness, and I am someone who believes that your actions, talents,values and beliefs make up your identity. Identity can either be created by experience or by thinking about what makes you unique. |