Andrew Laudick: What Are Setbacks And How Do We Overcome Them?
Andrew Laudick, Mrs. Workman, AP Literature, 3 September 2024.
What are setbacks and how do we overcome them? Setbacks or in other words a check in progress test a person, challenge them, and make them contemplate what they are doing in life. They are meant to be hard, some may be major or minor, but it does not matter, they are all hard in their own way. Setbacks happen to everyone all the time. They can break a person down or build a person up. Everyone wishes there was no such thing as failures, stress, defeat, anxiety, or hardships, but that's how life is, it all is not smooth sailing because if it were then there would be no point in living. Now, from a 17-year-old boy in a small town in Ohio, I will tell you about my setback that helped me learn about myself and helped me get to where I am today. …show more content…
My setback is not even going to be the hardest I go through in my life, and that's okay. It all started on November 14th, 2022, when I had just finished up my successful sophomore cross country season, and I had just started basketball practice on my very first practice of the season I felt my foot pop, and I fell to the ground in pain. At first, I thought I had just sprained something, but I ultimately broke my foot. At first, I was bummed but wasn't too upset since basketball was my least favorite sport and I didn't play very much. However, I knew this whole situation was going to be bad, because running was my best sport, and I wouldn’t be able to train over the winter for the upcoming track
What are setbacks and how do we overcome them? Setbacks or in other words a check in progress test a person, challenge them, and make them contemplate what they are doing in life. They are meant to be hard, some may be major or minor, but it does not matter, they are all hard in their own way. Setbacks happen to everyone all the time. They can break a person down or build a person up. Everyone wishes there was no such thing as failures, stress, defeat, anxiety, or hardships, but that's how life is, it all is not smooth sailing because if it were then there would be no point in living. Now, from a 17-year-old boy in a small town in Ohio, I will tell you about my setback that helped me learn about myself and helped me get to where I am today. …show more content…
My setback is not even going to be the hardest I go through in my life, and that's okay. It all started on November 14th, 2022, when I had just finished up my successful sophomore cross country season, and I had just started basketball practice on my very first practice of the season I felt my foot pop, and I fell to the ground in pain. At first, I thought I had just sprained something, but I ultimately broke my foot. At first, I was bummed but wasn't too upset since basketball was my least favorite sport and I didn't play very much. However, I knew this whole situation was going to be bad, because running was my best sport, and I wouldn’t be able to train over the winter for the upcoming track