What I did in 2009 and how did it affect me?

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Question 2 : Write an essay entitled “ The greatest challenge faced in 2009 and the lessons learnt. “

When one is faced with multiple challenges, one tends to often succumb to the two words – giving up. However, there would always be a particular challenge that puts people to the test, and it is up to themselves on whether they are set and willing to give up certain things just to overcome this huge obstacle they have just come across.

Every year, I would face many challenges like every other human being on this planet. It is often, during a certain time of the year, when a challenge which is posed as its biggest would rear its ugly head again. Often, I would tend to turn towards the negative side of things and feel like giving up, but so far, I have not. In 2009, nevertheless, there was another huge obstacle that awaited me. It was none other than death. Like any other teenager, my life was filled with many major problems that I often had to solve and try to break through the tough time. Being faced with multiple problems and worries at the same time, stress slowly began to eat its way into my head without my knowledge. Therefore, this caused the end result ( when I finally found out that I was stressed ) to be many times worse compared to if I had been able to find out why and how I was stressed the first time. Studies, family and friends were the most important things in my life that I had to keep me going. However, to keep certain important things in your life, you have to learn to let other things go too. I tried that, but it was to no avail. Nearing the end of year examinations, the stress in my head began to slowly reveal itself and it tried to overcome me. I nearly succumbed to temptation to the two words – give up – but I tried my upmost best after two weeks, in which I sank into depression slightly in between.

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My studies were never good as they once were in primary school once I entered this prestigious school. Perhaps my mind never intended to open up to new things, maybe I just had no motivation to go on. I was just not good enough for anything in this school, it seemed, at that point in time. In secondary three, I began to realize the seriousness of being retained or expelled if I was not able to hit the msg four mark for the overall year. I had only two choices – to make it or to break it. Everything weighed ...

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