So I have been recently working on the DGA Training Program
Application and one of the essay questions left me blank. This is how I
honestly answered it.
“WHAT IS THE GREATEST
CHALLENGE/ADVERSTY YOU HAVE HAD TO FACE IN YOUR LIFE AND HOW DID YOU OVERCOME IT?
WHAT DID YOU LEARN?”
I can’t honestly say that I have ever had such
a great challenge/adversity in my life that is worth talking about. To label a
challenge “great”, I imagine a vast number of obstacles that include blood,
sweat, and tears just to get to one thing. I could name obstacles that I’ve had
in my life, but when I think of challenges that I’ve seen in other people’s
eyes, mine is of little significance. I’ve been blessed enough to have the life
that I have and this question has made me realize even more how appreciative I
am of everything.
Having experienced a
month in the poorest state of India, Bihar, I can’t even compare my challenges
with the adversities that the people there face everyday. Begging for food and
searching for clean water while you have your baby sister in your arms at the
age of five every single day is a life challenge. Having to drag yourself on
your stomach because your limbs are distorted just to get around is a life
challenge. With all of these difficulties, people still find happiness and I
remind myself everyday that my problems are too insignificant to even complain
about.
I’ve had my life handed
to me and everything has been so easygoing and I don’t know what I had done in
my past life to deserve this, but thank you.
With that said, I think sometimes I get so sucked into these
“first world problems” and don’t really see the big picture and how it doesn’t
even matter in the end. Oh wow, my
teacher is a bitch. So what? At least I am getting an education. The guy at
Chipotle didn’t make me an overstuffed burrito? Hey, at least I’m not starving.
That’s why I am kind of glad that I am going away from all
of this for a little while. I don’t want to be sucked into the materialism of
it all.
I will be traveling to Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and
possibly Thailand this winter and couldn’t be more excited. Going to see family I’ve never met and some I
haven’t seen in over a decade. I am so
grateful that I even have this opportunity.
Oh and I really hope to get into the DGA program. If not, things happen for a reason.
