Grit, persistence, and resilience are three things everyone needs to have in order to live to their highest potential as a person. In the book “Hillbilly Elegy” by J.D. Vance, he tells a story about his rough hillbilly lifestyle, from almost dropping out of high school to his parents having drug problems to graduating college at The Ohio State University. All his endeavors have truly defined him as a person and led to him redefining the hillbilly lifestyle. Throughout the book, J.D. experiences many challenges of adversity and his reactions to these challenges show the reader how he gets to where he is in life by his grit, persistence, and resilience. Although my life has been completely different from Vance’s life, we both share
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Out of those three options, resilience is my strongest characteristic. Throughout my life I have always felt that I have been a resilient person, I like to think that I never give up. No matter how bad I am at something, whether its sports, school, or life I will not give up until I feel that I have succeeded. I believe I learned this characteristic during my young sports career. When I was growing up, I always wanted to be a professional athlete. Football, basketball, or soccer you name it. I wanted to be like all the athletes I saw everyday on television. I had to start working as hard as I could to accomplish this goal. The amount of time I have spent trying to get better at a sport by practicing and training is off the charts. Balancing school work, practices, and even my jobs every single day was awful and was one of the hardest things I have ever had to do in my life. However, I told myself everyday that this was going to be worth it one day and to keep fighting through the hardships that came were in my way of being successful. I've been hurt and I have been benched before and those two instances made me want to come back and try even harder than before. I have been through a lot of adversity in my life and I have sports to thank for teaching me how to never give up when times are tough and to keep moving
Out of those three options, resilience is my strongest characteristic. Throughout my life I have always felt that I have been a resilient person, I like to think that I never give up. No matter how bad I am at something, whether its sports, school, or life I will not give up until I feel that I have succeeded. I believe I learned this characteristic during my young sports career. When I was growing up, I always wanted to be a professional athlete. Football, basketball, or soccer you name it. I wanted to be like all the athletes I saw everyday on television. I had to start working as hard as I could to accomplish this goal. The amount of time I have spent trying to get better at a sport by practicing and training is off the charts. Balancing school work, practices, and even my jobs every single day was awful and was one of the hardest things I have ever had to do in my life. However, I told myself everyday that this was going to be worth it one day and to keep fighting through the hardships that came were in my way of being successful. I've been hurt and I have been benched before and those two instances made me want to come back and try even harder than before. I have been through a lot of adversity in my life and I have sports to thank for teaching me how to never give up when times are tough and to keep moving