When I was in middle school, I constantly got hurt but that never stopped me from trying. I always kept on going; I wanted to try harder even if I got hurt. I never gave up. People always told me that I couldn’t do it or you should stop doing what you’re doing, but I never listened because I believed that I could accomplish what I wanted. I have a reputation of always getting hurt, no matter what. During soccer practice, my teammates and I played against each other because it was part of our practice. While we were playing, I had the ball and one of the players from the other team was trying to take the ball away from me. When this was happening, she stepped on my foot in between the skin and the nail with her cleats. Even though I was injured, …show more content…
During the summer, I was bike riding with my brother, Cecilio, when the unexpected happened. We were riding our bikes to my brother's friend’s house because she wanted to come bike riding with us, so on our way to her house, Cecilio had two bikes. When we were almost to her house, my brother had to go around the curve because it didn’t have the ramp where you go down. As he was taking, his time going around the curve, a stranger on his bike came and stopped right next to me and said, “Hey babe, where are you going?” I had told him that my brother’s giving me directions because he was a stranger and I couldn’t just tell him where I was headed. As soon as he turned around, my brother appeared and the stranger left. When I reached the crosswalk, the countdown was at ten and my brother wasn’t even there yet. By the time he told me to go, the countdown was at five, but I still decided to go. I was almost to the other side of the sidewalk when all of a sudden, bam, I got hit by a car and fell to the ground. The woman stopped in the middle of the road and rushed straight to me to check if I was ok. While the woman was occupied with trying to see if I was ok, her car was stolen. When the stranger was driving off, the woman ran after it even though he was long gone and she was crazy because there were cars moving and she continued to run in the street. She later disliked me because her car was …show more content…
My mom made a birthday party for all four of us. She bought two different waterslides, one for the kids and the other for the adults. I got on the adult one that was 19 feet tall with a big pool at the bottom because I was too big for the other one. Later, all the other kids started to come on the tall waterslide because they just wanted too. The waterslide became packed, but I continued to stay on it because I was having too much fun. When I was at the top of the waterslide that was taller than my house getting ready to slide down, I was being pulled down, so I started to hold onto the ladder that was in the middle. As my hands started to slip, I grabbed onto my cousin’s hand, but I ended up falling anyways. Since there was a lot of water at the bottom, it took me awhile to get up because I needed to wipe my eyes and there my cousins were in front of me. Not knowing that I was going to get hit, I started to get up and then, wham, my cousin’s whole body landed on my neck. Feeling as if I broke my neck, I was unable to look up and stand up on my own so I had to be lifted up by two people. Unable to turn my head from left to right; my mom took me to the hospital to see if I was ok. I was in a lot of pain to the point where I had to do everything slowly. As I was in the hospital, the nurses put a neck brace on my neck that hurt a lot because I had to move my neck and I later had to take an x-ray.
Pain is a universal element of the human experience. Everyone, at some point in their lives, experiences pain in one form or another. Pain has numerous causes, effects, and is itself a highly complex biological phenomenon. It also carries with it important emotional and social concerns. Pain cannot be entirely understood within the context of any one field of scientific inquiry. Indeed, it must be examined across a range of disciplines, and furthermore considered in relation to important non-scientific influences, such as emotional responses and social determinants. I conducted my explorations regarding pain with the following question in mind: to what degree is pain subjective? I found several avenues of inquiry to be useful in my explorations: they are (1) the expanding specialty in the medical profession of pain management; (2) pain in individuals with spinal cord injuries (SCIs) and (3) pain experiences of children. Examining these issues led to the conclusion that pain is in fact a highly subjective phenomenon.
“Pain” by Diane Ackerman is a story about people who learned to conquer pain. The narrator was telling us when mind and body are connected, unbelievable things can happen. Ackerman described human body as “Miraculous and Beautiful” (298). The author represented many methods of controlling pain, and how difficult it is to define it “which may be sharp, dull, shooting, throbbing, imaginary” (301). At the end of the story she described that people are happy because the absence of pain “what we call happiness may be just the absence of pain” (301).
My mom, my sister, and I lifted my brother into the car. He felt as if he had eaten a ton of bricks. The towels were thrown into the car with haste. Then the car door slammed shut and off they dove to the hospital. The hospital is about 20 minutes away, 30 minutes with traffic. Since no one else went to the hospital with my mom we just have to take my brothers word that my mom sped. My mom said that all of a sudden he came out of shock. He started screaming louder and tried to make sense of what was happening. When they arrived at the hospital they were rushed to a room. The nurses cut off his blood soaked pants. They threw his shirt in a bag to get washed. the whole time my mom was gone with my brother my siblings and I prayed and talked. We had never had someone in our immediate family get this badly injured since my dad’s accident which was when my sister was just born and I (the oldest) was just a baby. My great-grandma and great-aunt were dead but other than that I haven’t really experienced much death. We knew he wouldn’t die but in the moment it seemed like anything could
“Don't quit. Never give up trying to build the world you can see, even if others can't see it. Listen to your drum and your drum only. It's the one that makes the sweetest sound.” said Simon Sinek. In life people only want to see what you can’t do. Basically everyone wants to see you fail, but if you’re a strong person you prove to them that you can make anything possible. I learned from my mistake that your own family isn’t your real support. I chose the wrong path when I started college, I chose the wrong people and I chose the wrong state of mind to start school. This brought my life to failure, were no one believed in me. Motivation, being successful, and not giving up are ways that identifies my personal
As a little girl, I was always known as the child who gets hurt almost all the time. I could never escape an injury even if my life depended on it. There was one incident that occurred that my parents and I still disagree on till this day. It all started one day when my brother and I were playing in our room after a long day at our uncle’s house for a family gathering. After playing for a while, my brother and I decided we both would like something sweet to eat, so we went to ask our mother for some ice cream. When our mother said we could get some, my brother and I jumped for joy and I went to retrieve the sweet substance. I was so excited about getting ice cream that I ran down the stairs to go get it. My journey down the stairs was not the easiest and ended in a lot of ...
Handling adversity is something that all people must do throughout their lives, but it is the ways in which individuals approach adversity that sets us apart. There are two contrasting ways in which you can respond to adversity: 1) you can either curl up into a ball and accept the outcome as it is 2) you can take control of the situation and work hard to make the resulting outcome in your favor. I faced adversity within sports when I was diagnosed with a physical disorder as a child.
I woke up one Sunday morning tired from the night before. My neighbor Sergio called me up to ask me if I would go with him to the car wash in Whittier. I got ready and left my house at about 12 o'clock. As I walked to his house, I noticed that the sun was bright and the sky was clear. "The day is too good to be true," I thought to myself and believed nothing could possibly go wrong. We got to the car wash and washed his car. The day was going fine. Then Sergio asked me if I wanted to go to East L.A. with him. I agreed and went with him. We arrived at his cousin's house and his cousin's friends were all drinking on the sidewalk. I felt strange to be there. I didn't know anyone except Sergio and his cousin. To top it all off, I was in a strange neighborhood with some gangsters that I didn't know.
My heart was beating loud and fast in my chest. It was getting harder and harder to keep myself above the icy water and my body was slowly shutting down. I tried to fight back by thrashing my arms and legs around but I quickly got tired and my limbs were going numb. Screaming was no use as it barley sounded like there was any noise escaping my mouth.
Through experiencing or living with pain, insight, knowledge and understanding can be presented to those things that may not have been in realization in a pain free life. Because of pain, the true meaning of life, what it is like to live, and the value of oneself and others is to be within one’s control. Pain strengthens the body, mind, and the spirit. As stated in Virginia Woolf’s essay on Being Ill, the true beauty of the people and the real beauty of the earth can be seen through the eyes of those who are in pain. Also according to Woolf, pain can lead to spiritual divinity. From my understanding, the power of prayer to some people is not in belief until pain has overtaken the body of oneself or of a loved one. Pain seems to open the eyes of those who have not lived correctly.
Subject matter in trauma is difficult due to the intensity of emotions that surface. Observing acts of abuse were difficult. Particularly the scenes were children were being abused. Moreover, self-injury videos were difficult to watch. Observing a mother who abused her child and then watching the child cope through self-injury was emotional.
What does pain mean to you? Pain is a tense feeling that tells you something may be wrong. There’s physical pain- acute and or chronic, emotional pain, and also a phrase known as “pain in the ass”- which is where something or someone is being annoying and or troublesome.
When we’re born we gave pain to our mother’s womb; when we wake up in the middle of the night hungry we cause our parent’s pain. When we try to walk we cause ourselves pain; when we don’ learn how to listen before we speak we cause ourselves pain, when we don’t learn how to question everything we were taught we cause ourselves pain. When we drink soda, and eat fast food we cause ourselves pain. When we don’t learn from other’s mistakes and do better we cause ourselves pain; when we let anger and jealousy control us we cause our mind’s pain. When we hold grudges we cause ourselves pain; when you’ve lived 40 years of your life and you still react to problems the same way a child does you cause yourself pain.
I made it to Big Lots, where Jonathan works, and I forced him to come outside and look at my car. Then we sat and talked for a while and I bragged about how I was going to my grandma’s house to eat a good home-cooked meal, while he would be forced to eat fast food again. When I left Big Lots, I still had a little time before church let out, so I drove back to Gray to the Dollar Store for some supplies for a Spanish class project I was doing that week. Finally I pulled into my grandparents’ driveway, and I noticed the door was closed. I thought this was unusual because I knew my grandpa was home, but I had forgotten a school fundraiser form for my aunts to look at, so I turned around and drove back home to Jonesborough. While driving home my friend Rachel and her mother were behind me, they followed me all the way to my house. I thought it was some kind of joke, but when we pulled into my driveway, Rachel yelled, “Get in the car! They had to take your grandma to the hospital.”
I am stuck in a world of thoughts, distracted with emotions, as my pen bleeds words of sorrow. Pain and
"There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man of woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer-committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear." George Eliot (1819-80), English novelist,editor. Felis Holt, the Radical, Introduction (1866).What is pain? In the American Heritage Dictionary, pain is referred to as "an unpleasant sensation occurring in varying degrees of severity as a consequence of injury, disease, or emotional disorder." The word is rooted in Middle English, from an Old French piene, from Latin poena, meaning "penalty or pain", and from Greek pointe, meaning "penalty." Pain is a very realistic problem that many individuals face daily.