Has anyone ever had the thought of what it takes to survive with the right traits to get through the ups and downs of life? A survivor works like a new car being made every year always adapting and being more efficient. When one has reached their breaking point, they get themselves fixed and back to moving again. A survivor mindset and heart will get through anything when they use it to the fullest. To be a survivor is to feel a sense of purpose and hope while staying focused. With purpose a survivor can have a sense to give it their all. Purpose gives one a reason to keep living life with a sense of accomplishment. Accomplishment makes one to have success as well of a feeling of positivity. Too often people let themselves go and get influenced …show more content…
Being focused allows to stay on task or get the job done. There is too many instances where someone will get distracted rather than staying focused at what is right in front of them. Also with focus allows you to get the job done especially when it is your moment or it is one life on the line. Kayla Montgomery, teen long distance runner with M.S., stays focused on being the best runner in her state despite being diagnosed with M.S. Montgomery states, “When I finish, it feels like there’s nothing underneath me. I start out feeling normal and then my legs gradually go numb. I’ve trained myself to think about other things while I race, to get through” (Crouse). Staying focused no matter how much pain someone may suffer from what happens they will reach their goals slowly but surely. Pain is a feeling that only pushes someone to stay on task to handle what is at hand. Just being diagnosed with something does not stop anyone from what they want to do, just because nature is giving them a challenge to overcome. To be a survivor is to feel a sense of purpose and hope while staying focused. Remember always try to be able to adapt to new situations and to keep surpassing limits to keep going even further. Anyone can get through anything if they stay calm on what is happening. Failing repeatedly only makes someone a better survivor in performing better at new situations. Everyone is a survivor no matter what the story is to be told from being minor to severe. Lastly never be ashamed of a scar , it simply means that to be stronger than what tried to cause
“Every few yards, there stood an SS man, his machine gun trained on us. Hand in hand we followed the throng.” ( pg. 29) Eliezer's instinct for survival outweighs everything else. Although Eliezer and his family did not want to go to Auschwitz, they went because they were threatened if they did not comply. The SS guards would have killed anyone who did not follow orders, so they left their home and everything they have every known in order to survive.
Being a survivor is a huge accomplishment that doesn 't come easy. There are many hardships that come along with the title survivor. A survivor is a person who survives, especially a person remaining alive after an event in which other have died or a person who copes well with difficulties in their life. Three important traits to be a survivor are stamina, logic, and bravery. {Olivia} First of all, in the story Trapped the main character, Aron Ralston uses stamina during his hike in Blue John Canyon when a boulder crushes his arm.
Survival : the state or fact of continuing to live or exist, typically in spite of an accident, ordeal, or difficult circumstances. In school, we read the book Peak by Roland Smith. The novel is about a fourteen year old boy with the urge to get to a mountain again after he moved to New York City. The closest thing to a mountain remotely near him is the New York City skyline. Until he took on Everest.
Perseverance means to keep going despite all the pain and distress that comes along with continuing. Following South Sudan’s first Civil war, the second Sudanese Civil War started in 1983 between the central Sudanese government and the Sudan People's Liberation Army. This war causes over four million southerners and over four thousand boys, called “The Lost Boys” to move to America. The people who survived, had to persevere in their long, horrendous journey. Throughout the novel A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park, Salva must overcome many obstacles from the war as he ventures toward safety and eventually, America.
Survival Essay Three paramount traits needed to survive any life or death situation are bravery, knowledge, and perseverance. Characters in the story Most Dangerous Game, the movie Castaway, and even people in the article “The Migrant Crisis” will show us why all of these traits are good to have in survival situations. Bravery is an important trait to have when trying to survive. You are faced with many scary or difficult circumstances in a survival situation and you need a brave mindset to tackle those challenges. “Rainsford remembered the [gun] shots...he swam in that direction…” (Connell, 2) shows that even though the sound of gunshots usually don’t mean well, Rainsford decided to swim toward that potential danger, even knowing that
Survivor 's Guilt Imagine surviving the Holocaust while millions of other people have perished. Dying people from left to right. You honestly wanted to help them, however you could not. Would you feel the guilt that you were alive while the person next to you did not? Even if you had the chance, would you even have saved them?
What is Success? suc·cess səkˈses/ noun the accomplishment of an aim or purpose It has always been said that nothing worth having comes easy. Chris McCandless, the protagonist of Jon Krakauer’s novel, Into the Wild, learned that sometimes being successful costs everything, including life itself. Chris was a young adventurer who loved to explore the world and all of the beauty it had to offer.
“Heroes are made in the hour of defeat.” This quote, by the late Mahatma Gandhi, who was an Indian activist, perfectly encapsulates the meaning of a hero. A hero is someone who stands up for what he or she believes in, and confronts the evils that the person may face, no matter how big or small those evils may be. This is exhibited in both Harper Lee's Atticus from To Kill a Mockingbird, and Markus Zusac's Hans Hubberman and Liesel Meminger from The Book Thief. Just like the quote eludes to, these characters stay resilient even when there seems to be no hope.
A survivor's eyes tell a story of regret and optimism, and pain and tenacity. A survivor’s eyes tell a story of regret and optimism. When someone has lived a full life, they tell a story of regret and optimism. They have lived through many stories of sadness, pain, hurt, fear, hope, and faith. Survivors have done things that they have regret, they have experienced things that will stick with them forever, and haunt them in their dreams.
Everybody knows that there are four seasons, and everyone has their favorite one out of all of them. Mine is when the woods turns into a coloring book of orange and red, when I put a nice warm batch of hot co-co on the stove, and were all of my family comes together every year. My favorite season is fall. My favorite hobby is hunting.
“Perseverance isn’t one long race; it is many short races one after the other.” - Walter Elliot. When someone is facing their idea of impossible, they must overcome many small bumps in the road and when they get over that small bump it can make them believe in themselves and make them stronger as a person. But perseverance can be well worth it in the end. Through determination, we can learn why perseverance is essential to making us stronger both mentally and emotionally, but we can’t just understand why but also how perseverance help in making us the strongest people we can be.
Intro-hook: Imagine your loved one unexpectedly commits suicide. Your mother, your father, your sister, or your brother. A mental illness such as depression can lead to someone taking their life. The scariest part is that whole time you didn't realize they had those thoughts. But the problem is this happens every 40 seconds around the world and we don't realize it.
However, resilience may also be described as the innate human quality that has not necessarily developed only after big disasters but processed through positive adaptation. A person can be resilient if he/she experience positive life events such as a job promotion, wedding, birth of a new child or having a new pet. These incidents would require the person to perform new roles and responsibilities and he/she can develop resilience to these changes overtime. This is resilience acquired through positive adaption (Fletcher & Sarkar,
Introduction This essay will look into how the concepts of resilience and the four trajectories proposed by Bonanno can be applied in the case studies. The target population of the case studies is people with medical conditions, namely, spinal cord injury, SARS and breast cancer. Furthermore, this essay will focus on the similarities of how people behave when facing a stressful situation. [[[[[Different percentages of trajectories, the possible predictors and the reason of the differences in the percentages of different trajectories]]]]]] Stressors and effects The first study is about people suffering from spinal cord injuries.
There are many women who are being forced into sex, beaten or perhaps abused in her lifetime by a person called a man. At some other times, the women are being assaulted by people whom they don’t know, but most frequently they are hurt or abused by people who are close to them. Women abuse occur in all cultures and races, it doesn’t have any boundaries. We have buried a lot of women, of which their death resulted from women abuse issue, some women today have anger and can’t even raise their children properly, they are angry with everyone and some can’t even face the world. Women abuse causes an awful emotional and physical pain; it intimidates the lives of women.