Difficult Challenges

==**NOTE I think that obstacles are good for us. If you mess up or make a mistake that is an obstacle. Without obstacles we wouldn't be able to learn from our mistakes. And you learn not to do what you did wrong again. Every famous person had to go through many failures to get were they are today. Without obstacles they wouldn't be as famous as they are now.**==

==**One example of a famous athlete that faced obstacles is Jessie Owens. Jessie Owens failed to qualify for the Olympics the first time that he tried. He also didn't win every race in his life. Many people don't know this but when Jessie Owens was a kid he had a bad skin disease. Because his parents couldn't afford a doctor they had to hold him down on a table and clean a kitchen knife and cut his bad skin off. **==

==**My second example is when I was at my summer camp I saw an older kid wave his finger and make it snap. I wanted to be able to do this. I tried and I failed. I kept trying, finally after 2-3 weeks I finally my finger to snap. My first finger snap wasn't that loud, but after awhile it got louder. Three weeks of hard work had finally paid off.**==

**This taught me that if you overcome an obstacle it can really pay off.**
==**Another example of overcoming an obstacle is a famous South African that does track that had their legs amputated. He runs on metal blades. His nickname is Blade Runner. He can run the 400m in around 47 seconds. This is really a big obstacle because he had to learn how to run with no legs and that he is successful is shows that obstacles can be overcome.**==

==**My final example is older people running road races. When I run road races there are usually lots of older people. Lots of them do really well too. This also proves that it is possible to overcome obstacles because it's harder to run fast for people when they get older. For these people a life without obstacles wouldn't be as fun as a life with them. **==

==**I believe that the world needs obstacles to be the way it is now. Without obstacles there wouldn't be famous people because everyone would be able to be good at everything. Some people may have harder obstacles than others but that doesn't mean that they shouldn't try hard. I believe that without obstacles the world would be an easy boring life where we do nothing. **==