Overcoming Obstacles In Life
Overcoming Difficult Obstacles in Life
There comes a point in everyones life where they must overcome something difficult. Whether that difficult thing may be passing a test, a family issue, or even beating a team in a sporting event, there is one or multiple obstacles people overcome in various ways. The most difficult thing that Ive overcame in my life would definitely be when my grandpa passed away.
This was the most difficult thing I had to overcome and accept in my life because I was really close with my grandpa and it took me time to accept that he was gone but I did and I just chose to remember him for the man he was which was the greatest person you could get to know. He was the father figure in my life and I went to him for everything. …show more content…
Losing a mediate family member is a horrible feeling.
Robert Ramos passed away May 2nd, 2016 in Fresno, Ca. He was born March 24, 1949 in Casa Grande Arizona. He was put into the hospital two days after he turned 67 because he started to get sick. My grandpa was in the hospital the whole month of April. When he was put into the hospital the family found out that he was diagnosed with lung cancer. When the family found out it was so hard to accept. A week or two later the doctor told us that he was already on stage four of his cancer. We were barely finding out that he had cancer and then to find out he was on stage four was so hard to take in.
Our family had such a rough time during the month of April because we were all learning about his conditions and the steps to trying to fight this.
Throughout this difficult time the one I was strongly surprised from was my grandma. She taught me through this completely hard time that we cant show weakness. She was strong throughout this whole journey with my grandfather disregarding the fact that she herself didn't have a whole lot of time to let his medical conditions sink in.
April 30, 2016 I went to go visit my grandpa in the Fresno hospital. While I was there i overheard the doctors talking to grandma and giving her an update of how my grandpa was doing. They were letting her know that he was doing much better and he was finally eating and responding well to his medications and Chemo. While I was talking to him it felt like nothing changed, he was the same person he was two months ago. His personality was still sarcastic yet funny and he still wanted to argue with me about the intelligence level of the Golden State …show more content…
Warriors.
I left the hospital that day happy because i got to see my grandpa doing good and starting to be himself again. A couple days later on May 2nd, 2016 at approximately 7:30 a.m my mother got a phone call from my grandma saying that they all needed to be at the hospital as soon as possible. I went to school that day like any other day just hoping I got updated soon with how my grandpa was doing. After school I went to basketball and right when I got out of practice I got a phone call from my mom saying my grandpa had past away.
My thoughts were blank, I had no reaction and no words for what I was just told.
I couldn't bare the thought of carrying on with my life without the one of few people who motivated me to do my best everyday in school and in sports. When I went to my grandparents house later on that day it started to sink in. As the days went on I questioned whether I could ever overcome this. After his funeral happened I started to slowly accept that he was gone. Then two weeks after we buried him I accepted that he had past away and that I have to keep going on with my life and instead of dwelling on what happened I needed to get back on track and accomplish what he knew I could
accomplish.
Now I pay all my attributions to him whether I succeed in the classroom or in athletics, everything I do is done in memory of my grandpa. Its not easy to overcome the tough obstacles life throws at you but its also not impossible. It may take time to heal and theres no exact amount of time given to you for you to move on but its not inevitable to overcome major events in life. Just like Rikki Rogers once said, “ Strength doesn't come from what you can do, It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.”
There comes a point in everyones life where they must overcome something difficult. Whether that difficult thing may be passing a test, a family issue, or even beating a team in a sporting event, there is one or multiple obstacles people overcome in various ways. The most difficult thing that Ive overcame in my life would definitely be when my grandpa passed away.
This was the most difficult thing I had to overcome and accept in my life because I was really close with my grandpa and it took me time to accept that he was gone but I did and I just chose to remember him for the man he was which was the greatest person you could get to know. He was the father figure in my life and I went to him for everything. …show more content…
Losing a mediate family member is a horrible feeling.
Robert Ramos passed away May 2nd, 2016 in Fresno, Ca. He was born March 24, 1949 in Casa Grande Arizona. He was put into the hospital two days after he turned 67 because he started to get sick. My grandpa was in the hospital the whole month of April. When he was put into the hospital the family found out that he was diagnosed with lung cancer. When the family found out it was so hard to accept. A week or two later the doctor told us that he was already on stage four of his cancer. We were barely finding out that he had cancer and then to find out he was on stage four was so hard to take in.
Our family had such a rough time during the month of April because we were all learning about his conditions and the steps to trying to fight this.
Throughout this difficult time the one I was strongly surprised from was my grandma. She taught me through this completely hard time that we cant show weakness. She was strong throughout this whole journey with my grandfather disregarding the fact that she herself didn't have a whole lot of time to let his medical conditions sink in.
April 30, 2016 I went to go visit my grandpa in the Fresno hospital. While I was there i overheard the doctors talking to grandma and giving her an update of how my grandpa was doing. They were letting her know that he was doing much better and he was finally eating and responding well to his medications and Chemo. While I was talking to him it felt like nothing changed, he was the same person he was two months ago. His personality was still sarcastic yet funny and he still wanted to argue with me about the intelligence level of the Golden State …show more content…
Warriors.
I left the hospital that day happy because i got to see my grandpa doing good and starting to be himself again. A couple days later on May 2nd, 2016 at approximately 7:30 a.m my mother got a phone call from my grandma saying that they all needed to be at the hospital as soon as possible. I went to school that day like any other day just hoping I got updated soon with how my grandpa was doing. After school I went to basketball and right when I got out of practice I got a phone call from my mom saying my grandpa had past away.
My thoughts were blank, I had no reaction and no words for what I was just told.
I couldn't bare the thought of carrying on with my life without the one of few people who motivated me to do my best everyday in school and in sports. When I went to my grandparents house later on that day it started to sink in. As the days went on I questioned whether I could ever overcome this. After his funeral happened I started to slowly accept that he was gone. Then two weeks after we buried him I accepted that he had past away and that I have to keep going on with my life and instead of dwelling on what happened I needed to get back on track and accomplish what he knew I could
accomplish.
Now I pay all my attributions to him whether I succeed in the classroom or in athletics, everything I do is done in memory of my grandpa. Its not easy to overcome the tough obstacles life throws at you but its also not impossible. It may take time to heal and theres no exact amount of time given to you for you to move on but its not inevitable to overcome major events in life. Just like Rikki Rogers once said, “ Strength doesn't come from what you can do, It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.”