Dealing with the change is a big challenge that I have faced. I was always wondering what was going to happen next after believing nothing could happen at all. Growing up, I lived in the small city of Amarillo, Texas. At the age of 9, I was simple minded, having my future planned out from which schools I will be attending, to the life I would be pursuing in my college years. Then reality came into play, showing me that life isn't as simple as I thought it would be. My life was flipped upside down when I got uprooted from my hometown to the new surrounding of Austin, Texas.
Adapting is hard fro many people and I was one to have to overcome the adversity and the life experience my parents put me in at such a young age. My parents gave me the strength by comforting me with their own past life experiences. Their relocation was way tougher than what I was put through because they had to figure out a way to adapt to a whole new country where they did not know how speak the language. After the Vietnam War my parents were faced with a dilemma which was to stay and suffer through an unknown future of their own communist country of Laos or to flee their home and choose to adapt to the land of democracy within the U.S. to survive. Life was surely not an easy path for them, but they adapted and live a prosperous life. They have been able to raise my sister and me, to allow us to have the opportunity to succeed in life.
Learning to cope with being able to step out of my comfort zone at a young age really made me strong to look at adversities in life and really push forward. Life is life, and during the 8 hour road trip to my new home I was just trying to comprehend what was going on. The question of "why" came into my thoughts many times as I was gazing
Micheal Phomachanh
Now the setback and the challenge of moving was starting to look like a fresh start, an opportunity, a chance to keep your old memories and begin new ones.
Heartache, pain, and negativity are an inevitable part of life that everyone has to go through. The character of a person is challenged through how they deal with the problems that life gives. In my personal experience, having to deal with those problems is just an instinct that you have to learn in life to survive. Many people learn this in there teenage years while having to deal with heartaches, but I was made to overcome this adversity at a young age. On my last move from Austin to Houston, I felt my heart wounded from the pains of my first relocation from Amarillo to Austin. Although this time was different because my parents gave me the ability to learn how to cope with things and deal with life pains and changes. Now I live with a positive outlook on life because I know that throughout life no matter what happens, being hurt, breaking down and crying is all part to the growth of a person. Being able to understand life's adversity and challenges helps me comprehend the infamous question of "why."
Now as I embark onto college with a mind frame ready to embrace the collegiate atmosphere wholeheartedly. As my fears turn into excitement, I am ready to being to write the college years of my life into the story book of my life. I am ready to take on the challenges, set backs, adversities, and opportunities that life has for me with the support of my family, friends and community.
Into the distance of the Texas horizon. The only way I could answer myself was by thinking this was the ending to one chapter in my life and the start to another. The move was difficult, tears rolled down my cheek each night after school, with the only comfort to hold onto was a new opportunity. At that time the challenge and setback was taking me down slowly but surely, becoming depressed and wanting to just run away from the fear of change. Overcoming a phobia is not an easy thing, but for the sake of being able to smile again I had to. To be able to take the negativity and turn it towards motivation to gain knowledge and grow as a person is what I had to accomplish at a young age. The most difficult setback about the whole move was fear, the fear of not being able to make new friends, the fear of not having the comfort of my family there for support, and the fear of having to be independent. Fear is defined as the feeling of danger, a state of mind of which I was in when I had first walked of my comfort zone of home through those unfamiliar halls of that new school. So much bigger and with so many more students than my past school, I never believed I could overcome this kind of challenge before. Once those words came across my mind though, a smile crossed my face as I thought about not being able to wait to run home and telling my family and friends back in Amarillo how cool it was to get this kind of opportunity. All of a sudden