The Struggle-Personal Narrative

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In a lifetime, everyone faces at least one hardship or some form of struggle, because living requires development physically, mentally, emotionally, and intellectually. The challenges and struggle we confront can teach valuable lessons that can prevent us from making the same mistakes as we progress on life’s journey. However, it does not mean that these challenges can be easily forgotten or completed, some of these challenges can permanently shadow future choices and opinions. From my experience, the adversity that I encountered is engraved into my memories, it’s drilled and twisted with regret and sadness. Wishing the impossible, I still want to turn back time and correct my biggest regrets.
It all began when my parents’ relationship and …show more content…
I got a call from your Aunt this morning and she heard news from her in-laws, your dad went missing and was found dead. I called your Grandmother and she said he went missing for a few weeks, then he was identified as John Doe for a while. Your Grandmother and Aunt have confirmed his autopsy and his identification. I’m so so sorry! My sweet, sweet girls”. The moment she said those words, a bundle of emotions replaced the doubt in the pit of my stomach and distress in my veins. I felt a mixture of anger, regret, and grievance. The drive home was full of tears and my mother professing her regret, my sister and I sat in silence. We felt numb with shock and sadness. It took a year of depression and loss of guidance to find the true meaning behind this traumatic memory, my sister and I knew what we felt and turned the emotions into something …show more content…
Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance next time” (Malcolm X 1). Adversity is the event that cause struggles in someone’s life, in any outcome, adversity will teach everyone a valuable lesson on their mistakes or how much strength it takes to continue. We learn these lessons from the pain and difficulties we experience from the challenges that we confront, although it can be a heartbreak and struggle that makes us feel weak, we can arise and come back stronger. Responding to challenges in our lives is our job, we are not given the privilege to choose whether or not we want challenges in our life because it's a natural phenomenon. How we respond to our encounter of challenges can determine our life choices and opinions of the environment that we are in, like Chiron from the movie “Moonlight”. Chiron faces challenges like bullying, self-acceptance, and emotional issues that are inflicted by his peers and mother throughout the movie, he feels isolated and unidentified because he tries hard to appear normal rather than different. Eventually, he stood up for himself and it made a difference in how others treated him as an individual, from there on, he gained self-acceptance as
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