Please write a personal essay for the following
The lessons we take from obstacles we encounter can be fundamental to later success. Recount a time when you faced a challenge, setback, or failure. How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience?
March 2020, what once felt like a normal life stopped and the challenges of adapting to a new normal began. Like so many others, I have been on this emotional roller coaster called life for almost 3 years. A pandemic, two out of state moves, and 3 high schools were all major adjustments that came with many challenges but my Dad’s unexpected death in September 2021 was by far the toughest. Death and the grieving process presents so many new and unfounded thoughts.
** my parents were divorced. My brother and I lived primarily with our mom and stepdad. Unfortunately like many teenagers, being around our parents is not always a priority which resulted in us not always willing to spend as much time with my dad or always take his calls to talk. I would like to use this to elaborate on the grieving process as well as how the realization that life is too short and we don’t want to take it for granted because the time we have with others is unknown.