“Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.”
~Roy T. Bennett
Nothing great in life comes without adversity. For me, this meant being able to dive into new experiences. When I was all alone; the new boy at school, I had to push past the fear and overcome the adversity. It was my first day at a new school. I was starting the eighth grade, and didn’t know what to expect. All the other kids already knew each other from previous years, but I was a new boy. I had to leave all of my friends from my old school behind, and start a new chapter of my life.
“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.” ~Aristotle
With many important things on my mind, reading The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie, wasn’t at the top of my list. The book started slowly and I quickly wanted to stop reading the book and focus on my secondary school essays; however, as I continued reading the book, I learned many key takeaways from this book. Even though this book was a struggle for me to read, I locked in and finished the reading—a reading that explores the effects of poverty and difference in profound ways on a sarcastic, lively boy named Junior, growing up on a Native American reservation, and taught me to accept academic challenges in a more complete way..
