Hardships In Enrique's Journey

Hardships: a time when things in someone’s life is hard. Hardships can influence a person’s life by allowing you to grow and to learn from past experiences. In Enrique’s Journey, Enrique’s mother, Lourdes, leaves El Salvador in search for money to send back home, and attempts to make the life long trip to the United States. However, she goes off the grid by not sending money home to her kids in El Salvador, not answering phone calls of returning them, so Enrique decides to make his own journey to the U.S in search of her. He has to take a dangerous route to make it, by swimming rivers that mark the border lines into Mexico containing swift currents, jumping trains to travel faster. He had to swim the same rivers and jump the same trains because
of being caught by customs along his route. However, finally, he makes it and is reunited with his mother, without going on his own journey he wouldn’t be the same person he is today because he knows the struggles and dangers people face when also trying to make the same journey. I was roughly 12 or 13 when I struggled with self-esteem, never thinking I was good enough and doubting myself because before i had the world coming my way. Nothing or nobody was going to stop me from reaching to the top, until I lost it and started venturing down a dark path. I didn’t perform well at school anymore, I was in constant trouble with my teachers. Then finally, I had a personal counselor to guide me back and to discuss what was making me act out. I eventually came out of it and became who I am today thanks to those who helped me get back on track. I learned my own worth and began to value life more due to what I had experienced. When facing hardships don’t be discouraged, they’ll influence you by making a better person out yourself.