Prompt: What was a hardship you overcame? How did you learn from it?
It was probably 50 degrees outside when I was waiting for water polo practice to start. The vibration of my phone immediately caught my attention, but instead of a text from my girlfriend or one of my friends, it was from my mom. Inside of that text were multiple pictures of an elderly woman on a gurney, and below those were photos of a completely totaled car that had been reduced down to half of its original size.
Looking at the pictures I couldn’t even recognize the bruised woman that laid upon the gurney but after about 30 seconds of examining the photos it was clear to me that it was my grandma.
Before this I had only heard about shock and what shock does to a person, but I had never really experienced it. However the feeling of emotional numbing soon came over me, what felt like 30 minutes was only 2. Shortly after this I was in the corner of our team room covered in tears, and what felt like just moments after, I was home.
At home my mom was constantly on the phone with the hospital, and with me being the oldest kid in the house the responsibility of taking care of and looking after my siblings fell upon me. For a few weeks, I saw this …show more content…
I was about five or six and I couldn't swim to save my life. My grandma,being the optimist she is, threw me in the pool and just assumed I would find my way to the surface of the water. Saying that I had immediately came up and was an excellent swimmer would be a lie. However, I did learn to adjust. Every time I failed I had learned to modify my technique in a new way. Eventually, after a about 4 or 5 times of being thrown into the deep end, I had learned to keep myself afloat. She became a true inspiration to me, and whether I knew it or not, 6 year old me was giving myself the foundation on how to keep myself afloat even in the most extreme of
It was probably 50 degrees outside when I was waiting for water polo practice to start. The vibration of my phone immediately caught my attention, but instead of a text from my girlfriend or one of my friends, it was from my mom. Inside of that text were multiple pictures of an elderly woman on a gurney, and below those were photos of a completely totaled car that had been reduced down to half of its original size.
Looking at the pictures I couldn’t even recognize the bruised woman that laid upon the gurney but after about 30 seconds of examining the photos it was clear to me that it was my grandma.
Before this I had only heard about shock and what shock does to a person, but I had never really experienced it. However the feeling of emotional numbing soon came over me, what felt like 30 minutes was only 2. Shortly after this I was in the corner of our team room covered in tears, and what felt like just moments after, I was home.
At home my mom was constantly on the phone with the hospital, and with me being the oldest kid in the house the responsibility of taking care of and looking after my siblings fell upon me. For a few weeks, I saw this …show more content…
I was about five or six and I couldn't swim to save my life. My grandma,being the optimist she is, threw me in the pool and just assumed I would find my way to the surface of the water. Saying that I had immediately came up and was an excellent swimmer would be a lie. However, I did learn to adjust. Every time I failed I had learned to modify my technique in a new way. Eventually, after a about 4 or 5 times of being thrown into the deep end, I had learned to keep myself afloat. She became a true inspiration to me, and whether I knew it or not, 6 year old me was giving myself the foundation on how to keep myself afloat even in the most extreme of