Adversity Research Paper

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Adversity is the hardships that some people receive a lot of to try and overcome while others do not receive any at all. These hard times bring forth more than the participants most likely bargained for. Although adversity is not something that a person would think would be beneficial to them, the struggles that they go through will teach them new characteristics that will greatly improve their lives. Talents such as courage, confidence, and determination will be forced out in a person in whom a life of abundance will keep hidden. For Baron Batch, a football player, his adversity was a torn ACL and this brought forward years of motivation to keep doing what he loves with a passion that he soon would have lost for good. A person getting injured …show more content…
My grandmother, Johann, lived to the age of 80 with a very strong and capable man by her side. At that point, He developed dementia and began to disintegrate. Johann did not let this hardship get her down for very long. Although it was extremely hard for her to be able to let him go, she had to keep on taking care of herself and that eventually made her stronger. He had taken care of most of the aspects of married life such as a job and finances, leaving my grandmother with not much to be responsible for. Suddenly she was faced with the trial of figuring out have to care for herself being quite and elderly lady. She did not know that she could keep up with her whole household on her own before. It is not that she did not have the strength before to do everything, but she did not have the reason to reach her potential. With the loss of her husband, she gained a lot of independence and confidence in her abilities that she was not able to receive if her husband had still been with her. Also, if he had died when they were in their 90s or older, she may not have been physically able to handle the stress of losing someone she loved. That hardship seemed to have come at the best possible time for her to blossom even in her time of