Overcoming Challenges In Life

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oshua J. Marine once said, “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” Several people have a specific obstacle that challenges them in the way in which they are able to undertake life. A challenge that I have been working on to overcome is my personal struggles with timidness in several situations that includes the interaction with others. I have been trying to subdue my diffidence by simply trying to create new friends in school, and I have begun speaking for myself in public spaces with the help of my family. During a brutally cold winter day, a few days after New Years, my family and I decided to eat at a local location for dinner. When we arrived at the restaurant, Glory Days, I saw the …show more content…

She carefully placed each of our drinks in front of us on a little, white napkin that had the logo printed on it. When she placed my drink in front of me, I quietly said thank you, but she didn’t hear me. I could smell her pungent perfume creep around the air surrounding our table. “Are you guys ready to order?” questioned the patient waitress. I had been the one who was taking hours to figure out what to eat, so the waitress had stopped by our table to ask if we were ready a couple of times. I was fiddling with my fingers because I knew I would have to talk to her myself. I had been used to asking my family to order for me, so I was uncomfortable with doing it myself. “I’ll have a Caesar salad, please,” responded my mother without hesitation. I had been buried in the corner of the booth. My leg was constantly bouncing up and down as the waitress talked to my Mom. I was looking down at my phone when the waitress scribbled my Mom’s order into her little black booklet. She had written the order onto her pad faster than a speeding bullet. Then, she asked my sister what she would like. I knew that I would have to talk to her next. In my head, I was coming up with the worst case scenario. When my sister told the waitress her order, I completely blanked out and forgot on the order that I was focused on

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