Essay about MY Struggle

Submitted By BillyG409

Words: 529

Pages: 3

Open Document

My freshman year I experienced something that only a handful of teenagers have to deal with. Most high school athletes are able to make it through four years of playing sports with only occasional small injuries. I was not as lucky. I was just enjoying a simple game of indoor soccer when my knee gave out and pain surged up and down my body. What was supposed to be a good time turned into an event that I cannot forget. Even to this day I can still hear my knee popping and cracking while my leg was wobbling like a noodle.
The words echoed in my head “You tore your ACL.” I never thought that I would be susceptible to such a tragic injury. I also had to deal with the fact that I would need surgery in order to keep playing soccer. The hardest part about deciding to have surgery was that I would have to give up a season of playing for my high school team. Although I could not play, I was still part of the team for the year I took off. I was the manager and went with the team to every game as I persevered through physical therapy and training.
Having surgery was a humbling experience for me, I went from being in great shape to struggling to bend my knee more than twenty degrees. I was suddenly on the same level as all the elderly people I shared physical therapy with. Surgery is not as simple as I first thought it would be doing I had no idea that my leg would have to relearn all of the simple routines I was used to doing with ease. Balance was a big part of physical therapy. I spent plenty of time on one leg trying to regain the balance I had lost. Also, if I could not fully extend my leg then the doctor would not clear me to play soccer again. So during therapy I was constantly stretching and working on the flexibility of my knee. Finally, six months after surgery I got the ok to start playing

My Writing Struggles

Generally, writing has always been a struggle for me since the start. I've always couldn’t seem to figure out if I was putting enough information like too much or even too little of it. I would basically always have trouble starting a paper no matter the topic I would be given it would just seem too difficult to have any ideas for it. Especially, I wouldn't know if the things I have wrote down would have the correct words or be good enough for the reader to be able to understand them. Writing basically…

Words 547 - Pages 3

My Writing Struggles

Throughout my years of school, I have learned that the area that I struggle with the most is writing papers. I have difficulty turning my thought into words for a paper. I always know what I want to address in the paper, but struggle finding the words to say. I also struggle because I am what some call a perfectionist. When I am writing I will constantly delete what I have said and find a new, better way to say it. This can be about how I word a sentence or simply the vocabulary. I spend most of my time…

Words 350 - Pages 2

My Writing Struggles Analysis

The Struggles in My Writing History I have been never a good student. My first day of kindergarten was filled with desperate cries and irritating feeling of wanting to go home. I came from a household that would only spoke Spanish, when I went to school many of my peers were learning to write while I was barely learning to speak the language. Throughout my years in elementary, intermediate, and part of my high school journey I was always below average in the academic spectrum. My parents are from…

Words 1017 - Pages 5

Mein Kampf: My Struggle

down the government in Berlin, however his plan did not work and his uprising was suppressed and Hitler was arrested and sentenced to five years in prison for treason. Imprisoned, he spent his time there dictating his autobiography Mein Kampf (My Struggle), in which he sharpened his anti-Semitic and anti-Marxist beliefs and laid out his plans for Nazi conquest. After nine months of imprisonment he was released due to the pressure on the government by the Nazi party. On his return to the party ho…

Words 1074 - Pages 5

Personal Narrative: My Struggle Of Identity

Everyone has a difficulty, something they struggle with at some point of their lives. Everyone has that one obstacle they have to overcome. In my case, that obstacle has been my identity. When we moved to the United Stated States of America, I was 3 years old. Even though I was a small child, hispanic culture was important in my life. Because of this it was hard integrating into the United States. For a while, the language was a barrier as well. I could not play with the other children or understand…

Words 473 - Pages 2

Personal Narrative: My Struggle With Adversity In My Life

Everyone struggles with adversity in their lives. Growing up, people are faced with challenges that may seem impossible to overcome, but eventually break through the stumbling blocks placed in front of them. I was an enthusiastic and vibrant child growing up, and I was very loving. Throughout the years, that slowly disappeared. For some reason, I became the target of ridicule and it ate at me. When my family moved to Ghana, it became worse. The ridicule not only continued, but I was abused physically…

Words 317 - Pages 2

Personal Narrative: My Struggle With Writing

what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” I believe this short quote explains my style of writing. My struggle with writing started when I was younger. I never had the capability to put my ideas onto paper, this was mostly because I struggled with grammar and sentence structure. I hated falling behind, I would see the other kids being able to write paragraphs while I am still on my first sentence. I could never begin to write because most of the time I didn’t know where I wanted…

Words 1507 - Pages 7

Personal Narrative: My Struggle With Anxiety

My every day, ordinary struggle Have you ever had times where you are so nervous about something that you talk yourself out of doing it? I have, it has ranged from not giving a speech in a class to going out with my friends on the weekends. Some people call this simply being nervous, but for me it is anxiety. Anxiety is a mental disorder that affects different people in different ways. For me it is characterized by excessively worrying about some of the smallest things, shakiness, racing heart, and…

Words 1194 - Pages 5

Personal Narrative: My Struggle With Literacy

My biggest struggle with literacy has been having the self-confidence to speaking in public. When I was in elementary school I remember how anxious I would get when I had to stand up in front of my class and answer a question, recite a poem, spelling bees, anything that would need me speaking in front of the class. I never really thought about why I felt this way until reading Drive, by Daniel H. Pink. Pink suggests people are driven by: Motivation 1.0, Motivation 2.0 and Motivation 3.0. Motivation…

Words 2062 - Pages 9

The Struggle In Chaim Potok's My Name Is Asher Lev

and community's wishes to pursue his love and passion for art. In the novel My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok, Asher dreams of his disapproving mythic ancestor symbolize Asher's inner conflict between his Hasidic religion and his ability and passion for art. Asher’s mythic ancestor starts as someone to live up…

Words 695 - Pages 3