Overcoming Obstacles

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Many obstacles and disadvantages have been overcome several times throughout history. If some of those obstacles have never been overcome the world will be very different from how it is now. If those individual had given up when a challenge when a challenge was presented to them many of their accomplishments would be replaced with failure. But instead they found something good in every challenge or obstacle that was presented to them. This is one of many reasons why i strongly believe that yes, you can turn an obstacle into something good. I have turned many challenges or obstacles into something good but there was one time when I truly understood that anything bad can easily become better or even good. I was around the age of eight or seven

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