<p>Wow, SAT is on the 9th, and I feel fried.<br>
I would really appreciate it if this amazing community could help me out in my weakest spot, the ESSAY.</p>
<p>I have written several, but I am posting my latest one. Any and all critic is fine by me! Oh, and ASAP, thanks.</p>
<p>Prompt: Do you think that ease does not challenge us and that we need adversity to help us discover who we are?</p>
<p>Essay:</p>
<pre><code>The individuals that we are, our passions, our capabilities, and our limits, are perfected through adversity. Any opaqueness that may have existed when viewing through the windows of our definite selves becomes lucid upon exposure to such difficulties and hardships that question our ideals to the core.
For instance, my father is a great example. He was a medical student. Notice the use of past tense. He was diagnosed with dengue within a few weeks of medical school, and, after healing, he no longer wished to study medicine. Owing to his dance with death, he realized that he had other more important things to do in life. Rather than spending years studying he felt that, to him, staying with his children was more important. My sister and I were still babies at that time and my dad did not want to miss out on our lives. To him, that was more important than becoming a doctor. When faced with difficulties, his true intentions became clear to him.
Adversity helps us understand ourselves better, mainly because in the hardships, our ideals are challenged. What we believe in, understand, and how we behave can all come under scrutiny, when we are in a difficult situation. Had my father not experienced the life threatening scenario that he did, he wouldn't have quit medical. He was like many pupils of science, believing that his future was clear cut, and that he was destined to be a doctor. Faced with adversity, his way of thinking changed. He delved deeper into his conscious, and in the end made the choice that he truly wanted.
It turns out that "Tough challenges reveal our strengths and weaknesses." Without the difficulties that we may occasionally face, that help us straighten our ideals whenever we may have deterred, we would not have been able to discover what type of individuals we really are. It is through adversity that our understanding of ourselves is honed and our true intents discovered.
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<p>Well, still on the topic of my difficulties on writing essays, I have a difficulty in finding examples. I can create an intro and conclusion that seems fine, but when it comes to example I go blank. Building up logic is not too much trouble for me, but my bank of examples is kind of void. What would you guys suggest?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>