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Alex Gonzales: Hardships Influence A Person's Life

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Whether it be losing a family member or a close friend, having a bad accident, or even losing everything and becoming homeless, hardships all influence a person's life, some more than others, but they all have some sort of impact. They usually can impact in a way of warning, like if someone lost a relative due to someone drunk driving, then they would know not to drink and drive, for it made their relative die, why would they want to make that happen to somebody else. Therefore, hardships can influence a person's life because they help you make better choices. Alex Gonzales, for example, is a rapper who encourages kids to stay in school and not do what he did. He grew up in the streets, so it was easy for him to get influenced by the people

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