Personal Narrative: Overcoming An Obstacle In My Life

Throughout my short, young live I haven’t had much experience with life-changing obstacles or events. In addition, overcoming an obstacle depends on what qualifies as an obstacle in your eyes. Since, we all have different opinions about what an obstacle is, I believe it all comes down to how personal the challenge is to you and how serious you are to overcome it. Therefore, my personal demon I had to defeat was as simple as stop drinking coffee. Firstly, the reason I had to quit coffee was simply because I was probably mildly addicted and it wasn’t benefitting me at all. For instance, I’ve had already consumed so much coffee in my life that it was like water to me, the caffeine wouldn’t actually work on me anymore. Furthermore, the only reason I’d consume it

In fact, the saying “Old habits die hard”, is extremely accurate when I decided to stop drinking coffee. At the beginning, it felt simple all I had to do was replace my morning drink to milk and I was good to go, or so I thought. Unmistakably, I thought it would be simple but it turns out, just like any other guilty pleasure you have, I started craving coffee. For example, everyday I went without a cup I felt like my day wasn’t fine until I had coffee in my system; it was ridiculous I couldn’t believe it took a lot for me to not lose myself in small cup of coffee. In other words, it’s safe to say that I was basically experiencing withdrawals from not consuming coffee in days, which to others may be normal but for me, at the time, was incredulous. In addition, transitioning from withdrawals