biggest obstacle you overcame in life so far?

[Mantle Drunk]

My health. I had a blood disease just walking up stairs was a feat and I would be so exhausted I really couldn't do anything but sit on my couch watch tv and go to sleep that's it. It would be a struggle to get to the dinner table. I was only 19 and all my friends would be going out having fun calling me asking me if I wanted to go but I couldn't and at first it frustrated me. I lost a whole summer of my life for it.

It got to the point when I got back up on my feet and healthy I became so accustomed to sitting around doing nothing that it was really hard to break out of that rut. I was content to just sit there and if you know me that's really not something i'm about i'm always out and on the go. Really I've got to give it up to my parents they really pushed me to get back out and start living life and pushing me to call my friends and hangout and all that other shyt. There constent pestering really was the main motivation for me to get up and get out.

 

[EffedUp]

So far? I would say graduating from college (Xavier (OH) '07).

I put myself in a serious hole my freshman year. I originally started off Computer Science because I wanted to do something to do with computers. I found the main course interesting yet difficult as well as struggling in the math courses. I was not used to not having classes everyday and started fukking up (doing work too soon - not studying type shyt). I ended up with a bad 1st semester.
2nd semester comes around and I'm still struggling. I dropped 2 classes and ultimately decided to get out the major but still needed to finish the semester. Not being used to asking for help and being complacent I resorted to cheating in the Comp. Sci. courses just to get through the year. Needless to say, they caught my ass at the end of the year. (Imagine how that conversation went with my mom ). My final GPA was lower than low. I seriously went from valedictorian at my HS to almost kicked out of college in 1 yr.
Thanks to my future advisors, I was able to turn it around and still graduate on time with a different major. to Doris Jackson and Tom Schick.

Going through a bigger obstacle at the moment. It's called quitting your bullshyt job after 4 yrs. and trying to find a better one (haven't worked since the end of September). I've searched and searched, got the runaround and even contemplated going back to school. I'm starting a temp job tomorrow so I at least got something for the moment. To be continued lol...

 

[SuburbanPimp]

The summer after my freshman year of college...

I had just had my son... Then my Mom passed away that summer. Then my Dad moved to Oklahoma that fall.

I was out here all bymyself, with a kid and no parental figures around.

As much as I loved college I had to leave.. Get me an apartment, get me a job and basically become a adult right then and there at 18. All the rest of my friends were still staying with their folks, playing playstation all day, buying new rims and systems. I had to get out there and get it on my own and didn't have a backup plan of going to stay with my folks. Learned how to hustle, Learned how to be humble... It was tough but it paid off I'm a much stronger person because of it. I have a nice house and things now but I know I could go back to a one bedroom apartment in the hood with top ramen and hot dogs and I'll still be straight...

 

[Dreamzeedream]

yea man i been makin threads liek this since i signed up

i guess they didnt know who i was at first



damn good shyt my nikka
do what you gotta do...real nikkas gone let they mans get hisself together



damn babygirl thats messed up
you had any luck? are you outwardly seekin or searching inside yourself?



mannnnn im tellin you my nikka its crazy out
my bro just got shot 3 times tryna put a play down

all money aint good money

i see,you one of the only few dudes that make real threads on here.alot of these nikkas be on some lame trolling shyt

 

[IPunchFaces]

Losing one of my best friends. Was drunk as shyt with him, out and about. I got wasted and left. Drove home, I don't know how. Woke up on top of my bed, fully clothed with my sneakers still on to my other best friend crying saying he died in a car accident . He kicked my front door in knowing I was with him last night and thought I might have been in the car. Depression overload. Being hungover, losing your best friend who I was just with hours before and looking at my phone and realizing I had 2 missed calls from him. Still sucks. You think about that shyt allllllllllllllll the time....the what ifs. What if he got in my car and I drove him even tho I was wasted...what if I got in his car???

 

[SemiEnlightenedBum]

moms getting high&smoking bogeys while i was in the womb with my sperm donor beating her

family of drug addicts

projects

abuse

being blackballed by "good" family for sins of "bad" family

being tailed by govt factions

 

[PimpHandStrong]

Losing one of my best friends. Was drunk as shyt with him, out and about. I got wasted and left. Drove home, I don't know how. Woke up on top of my bed, fully clothed with my sneakers still on to my other best friend crying saying he died in a car accident . He kicked my front door in knowing I was with him last night and thought I might have been in the car. Depression overload. Being hungover, losing your best friend who I was just with hours before and looking at my phone and realizing I had 2 missed calls from him. Still sucks. You think about that shyt allllllllllllllll the time....the what ifs. What if he got in my car and I drove him even tho I was wasted...what if I got in his car???

Dam bruh, my condolences and sorry you had to go through that. Glad you here though man. Amazing how one decision alters our lives.