Essays on Adversity

“Success often lies not in what happens but in what you prevent from happening” Black Klansman, a film directed by Spike Lee explores how Individuals may face many challenges but to overcome these challenges, one must work hard, have patience and determination. Similarly, my entity...

Most people are familiar with the aphorism “What does not kill me makes me stronger” which originates from Friedrich Nietzsche’s Twilight of the Idols (“Was mich nicht umbringt macht mich stärker”). It is visible in our society that this aphorism does have several coinciding quotes...

Adversity is characterized as a circumstance checked by incident, misfortune, or wretchedness. Whether generally kind or amazingly hurtful, at a few point in their lives, each individual has experienced an adverse circumstance. The hardship is moderately little for most of us, but we still have...

It is no secret that how a person was raised and what they experience shape who they become. However, when we think of childhood experiences shaping a person, we often forget that the experiences they face in childhood can become a factor related to mental...

Being resilient is defined as recovering from misfortune without giving up. It means to develop habits that help you to get back up onto your feet and adjust from tragedy or change without giving up. The movie Spider-Man Into The Spider-Verse demonstrates the ideas of...

Helen Keller once said, “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” Even though the world has its problems, there are so many people that push aside those issues and change themselves or others to make the...

Regardless of adversity in life, human resilience always prevails. There There, a Political History novel, written by Tommy Orange is a well-paced multigenerational tale about self-identity, loss, reliance and the excellent writing which interweaves sadness into the historical backdrop of a country and its people....