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A time when I experienced a difficult  challenge to over come in my life is when my grandfather died. This event was very tragic because I loved my grandfather very much. It was

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A time I experienced a difficult time in my life is when I missed the game winning point to win the basketball tournament. I felt like I failed all my teammates and my school. I felt like every went blank and I couldn’t do anything useful. Also it was rainy that day so I felt even worse. Outside it was so cold, i was so devastated that I said I am the worse basketball player of all time. I had no confidence in myself. I didn’t want to eat or drink because of that moment. Over night I kept getting bad dreams of that same moment when I messed up. Than I thought about Lebron James, he messed up all the time and no is perfect. I just need to keep  practicing so I can get better. Then I remember my favorite quote about basketball, “Keep calm and keep Balling”.

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A time when I experienced a difficult time in life that created a darkness or negative paradigm was when my grandfather died. He was very funny and always played tricks on me. This created a darkness because without him life felt like something was missing. He would always cheer me up. Without him there was nobody as funny as him. This caused me to only focus on the negatives in life and not the the positives.

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A time when I experienced a difficult time in life that created a darkness or negative paradigm was when my great grandmother passed away. I was only two years old but I still remember it like it was yesterday. Her passing caused her depression in my family

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To be honest, I had some dark times throughout my life and one of my dark moments where when in Haiti one of my cousins died and he was my second fav cousin and he use to care about me all the time and he was really positive when thing went wrong. He was my ray of sunshine and he was so amazing and the fact that he died so soon is the sad part. I was able to overcome this dark time was when I had to think he was in a good place and he is happy now. This is connected to Zebra because zebra was in a dark place and I was very sad and shut down the whole world.

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One time in my life i found myself in 4th grade, i was sitting in a table doing nothing while other people are eating food. And while i was talking to someone some girl said to the teacher that i said a profanity towards them. then it ended up being in a conversation with the teacher for no reason which pretty much made me very annoyed and upset because the teacher was a nice person. It was even the last day of school. In the end i forgot about it over the summer and it affected me a little.

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A dark time that i experienced in my life is when my uncle died . He moved downstairs in with my mom, my sister and I when i was 5 and since then he been helping me with my homework and drop me off to school and pick me up after. He was really the only uncle i was close with . He had a lot of video games and stuff so me and my sister would go downstairs and order Chinese food and laugh . I always hanged out with my uncle. I went by his job and would go by his old apartment to pick some more of his stuff . My uncle put me in dance class for saturdays so i wont be bored home often . He also paid for my classes every year, bc my mom didn't have enough money and she had other things to focused on to keep a roof over our heads . So ever since then I was in my dance class practicing and stuff and in june we perform . My uncle was there every performance and cheered me on . When i was 10 i was told my uncle had gotten cancer . It was very heart breaking , but i believed he can get through it and prayed for him every day. My uncle was at the hospital in and out. Although my uncle had cancer he didn't stop being himself . One day my mom and i decided to go visit my uncle and we got a call from my aunt and said he took his last breathe . then a few days later we told my sister and it was so heartbreaking for our family bc i really loved my uncle .

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A time when I experienced a difficult time in my life that created a darkness or negative paradigm was when my dad left my mom, my sister and I. I was broken and in a dark place and i was only 2 years old. I never really wrote how i felt at the moment or said it because i thought it wouldn't change a thing. I thought i was alone and that nobody was there for me. After a while, I found a way to help my depression to get better and I was able to overcome it. I was able to overcome my problem because the longer he was gone, the more I got used to it. I was able to really see how it felt like without him and as i was growing up I really show his true colors. Even though, I never got a call, a text, a email or a letter. I still was able to maintain it. So when I read Zebra's story, I was able to relate to him because we was both lost something that we loved.

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Personally, I’ve never experienced a time that was difficult and dark enough to creat a negative paradigm of the world around me and how I preform at school or how I act at home.  But I have a friend who was having trouble at home because her father cheated on her mother, and suddenly she started acting gloomy at school as if she didn’t care about her grades at all. My best friends and I, had to talk to her about it and helped her through her studies but we didn’t really get the chance to have a deep conversation about it.  But after awhile she realized her mother got over it and so did her brother then she did. As she started to come back to her senses she realized, she wasn’t that close to her dad since he was never around and she didn’t get why she made that much of a deal about it and decided she would just let it be since her mother expected her father to cheat and already prepared herself for it and quickly got over it.

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A dark time in my life is when I was riding my bike with my cousins and we was going to race we lined up at the end of the block and said first one at the other end wins 5$ I was like I’m going to win so we start when we all say 3 my older cousin was next to me and I tried to cheat to get first by kicking his bike my leg got stuck on his bike then we both fell on to the concrete scraping our knees and I hit my ankle on a brick at the side of the road (like you know where the trees be and it be guard by a Fence) yeah that it was painful and it hurt so bad I tried to stand up but it didn’t happen I kept falling back down and said god please no because I though the doctor was going to cut off my leg (only reason why I though that is because I was a younger kid like around 7 or 8) and it was a scary time. Now that I look back on it I looked crazy and my grandpa will make fun of me for the crazy stuff I did that game (and life lesson guys Mario cart can really happen in real life)😂

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A time in my life where I experienced a difficult, dark, and negative paradigm is when I was 11, I barely walked cause I spranged my ankle. My dad got home from work and hehad  left the front door wide open. I simply hopped out and saw the stairs tried going down the stairs slowly by myself to throw the trash out, but I stumbled and fell. I was at the bottom of the steps far away looking up felt lonely, hurt, and unhelpful. My dad kept yelling my name out AMIR!!! AMIR!!! AMIR!!! I yelled back calling for help. I saw my dad at the top of the steps. He jumped down picked me up and carried me up the stairs to my room. And I took a long nap after that. By the looks of my situation and zebra's situation we have a great connection by how we both got to the point where we didnt care about anything and wanted to be done with it.

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A difficult time in my life that created a darkness/negative paradigm in me was when my Aunt died. When my Aunt died I was broken, I saw the world in a different way. At first I shrugged it off like it was nothing, but after a while I thought about it and it got to me. I didn't think so deeply about her death at first, I didn't think about never seeing her again or ever hugging her again or even talking to her. I just thought she was gone. After  a while I didn't want to eat, I didn't want to talk to anyone I just wanted to see my Aunt one more time. I regretted not crying at her funeral, not mourning for her or saying any touchy things to her before they closed her casket for the last time. To me the world didn't have the same light as it use to have, without her it was meaningless. I felt like I didn't have a purpose. I asked myself a million times why did she have to die? Could she not live longer? If the nicest person on earth to me died then why not the evil why should such a blessed person that's in my life die and not the people that do wrong. I felt weak because I've gone through a lot in my life for the short time I was here on this Earth and nothing has fazed me for such a long time like this has. After her death I looked at people differently, I would look at someone like they were dogs just filthy creatures that don't deserve to live. I hated to see people that were so wild and loud and obnoxious, they were filthy mongrels to me I didn't care for them as much as they didn't care for my loss. People would say "I'm sorry for your loss" when they actually just say it out of pity. I watched them as if they were fools, you can never feel any pain that can amount to mines. You've been through things but compared to me its a joke. I then started to see changes in people, but it was probably just me. People were very fake to me they were nothing I stopped trusting people and kept to myself. I then realized I was a fool. My Aunt wouldn't want me to be like this if i would want her to rest in peace I should mourn for her and live my life as a regular kid. Not damaged, just regular. So with all my heart I mourned my loss and then with all my will-power I kept her in my heart and went on with my daily activities. After that I was challenged many more times, but I made a promise to myself to never be that weak again. I am fazed by nothing I was raised to be scared of no one I became a bit Bi-polar in the process of being strong and mourning but I fought through it. Nothing in this world can hurt me mentally anymore. I can just become Numb. That was the effect of me losing my Aunt, but I still got through it.