Personal Narrative-I Had An Obstacle During My Life

Have you had any obstacle during your life and how did you overcome it?

I think every person in life has had an obstacle in different levels, but mine is a funny obstacle and may be not so logical. When I was a little girl my mom enrolled me in a swimming course and it was all Saturdays, she wanted me to learn to swim because I was going to have that class on school and she was worried if one day a girl pushed me I was going to drown. I don't like to swim and I was afraid to do it, I received three years of the same course and all Saturdays and I didn't have success and development on the course. One day my mother was tired and bored to pay all the time classes and have me doing something that I really dislike, so she told that if I learned in one month to swim and all the technique she was going to take me out from the course and no classes anymore.
The funniest of the story is that my mom was paying a lot of money and I did it in a short time and also I won big and a variety of competitions. The big lesson that gave this obstacle was that I can do any goal I want and my actions and effort are bigger than only talk and don't do anything, showed me that I have power and everything is possible with