I had to come over a lot of obstacles with our problems, not with me.I don't have any heart problems, but in my family. And what obstacles is being never been able to really meet my Grandpa. And another one is being worried for my brother. On my dad's birthday, my Grandpa died of a heart attack and cause that my dad doesn't like celebrating his birthday as he did before. Also I really never got to meet him as I can remember. Because supposedly he held me as a baby but I don't remember any of that. So now looking back, I just never got to meet an important family member because of its heart issues, and that really sucks. And then my Grandpa, from my mom's side, I saw him. I knew him, but he was in a wheelchair with no toes and with missing fingers. The reason because she had heart problems and they needed to remove some blood vessels. To put it to his heart. Heart disease in my family hasn't really impact a lot of us, but it impacted the oldest generation of my family.And i've seen what her problems could do. Now the closest it's too hard problems.My family is my second oldest brother, he had a small heart attack earlier this summer, and he's only in his 30, which is pretty young to start having heart attacks. So i'm trying to encourage him to be better.And live healthier, but it seems like he's here for a good time, not a long time, because I always tell him to have healthier choices.But doesn't seem to care.So I have to overcome his decision and respect it because I tried, but it doesn't seem nothing has changed. So as I go on with these obstacles, I try to live with these in the way. But as I go on, I'll try to make the best of it and I will try to live on with it. Even though there will be a day where our problems will be an obstacle that we will have to face as a family.Because now my third oldest brother is feeling heart problems as well. But he is actually trying to fix it.He's eating better.He's on a better diet, and he's lost some.Weight?He's doing good and i'm proud of him. So in conclusion, I just wanted to say that our problems is not an easy thing to have or to have in your family.It's hard because our problems could take away people you love or hurt them. So I pray to god to protect us all guide us to the right down to the right path.

When I started college, I didnt get accepted to a dorm, so I had to rent out a room and just live there by myself and I thought it was cool.You know, there's gonna be my own spot, my own room my space and I look forward to it. But little did I know it will be my greatest obstacle that I'll face. When I moved in, I was happy.I'm like, yeah, I got this first semester in college at cal poly pomona. But when my mom dropped me off on the first day at my room, I got a little sad like damn, my mom left me in this room alone with the strangers in the house that I don't even know these people.But I thought it was to myself that you know. It is the first day by myself in the house first day alone so I thought it was a first day jitters. But as time kept going, I realized I never adapted to be this alone I was always getting depressed I gave up on schoolwork.I didnt want to do anything and I didn't have any courage or motivation to do nothing. I stopped hanging out with friends.I was just go to class, sit in the back of the room.Do nothing go back to my room and just lay in my bed and just feel numb. But on a wednesday afternoon on october, I found myself talking to god in that dark room, and I was saying, like, what am I doing here?I don't feel I have a purpose.I don't feel like i'm doing anything.I don't feel motived to go to school, and I felt lost. I got some crazy thoughts in my head.But I turned back fast.I didn't look that way, but they were there.But I didn't let it overcome me and that's when I truly started talking to god. At the end of my conversation, I closed my eyes and just went silent. I did a thinking of nothing didn't do nothing just lay there in my room in a blank mind. Then, I got an image in my head of me hugging jesus, and it brought me to tears, and I thought that it was just my head like me for desperation to feel warm or something.But that image that in my head stuck with me for a very long time, and I realized it wasn't just my imagination.It was god Give me a sign to keep on going and he's here with me. After the interaction I felt lighter. Like a weight lifted off my chest, but started to get my motivation, back little by little, but I was still in that state of mind of not wanting to do anything, but I will still talk to god in my room.I was to pray to him and I always will have a conversation with him every time in that room and that grew my faith.A lot without me even realizing it, because now I talk to god every single day of my life intill this day. I will share this story with many people who are struggling with the same thing I am because I know it's hard to be alone because I quickly come to realize that quiet is violent and the only thing that could kill that quietness is Jesus Christ our lord and savior. So this obstacle, I overcame it's a reminder me that no matter what God is with me even when it's even when it's quiet. (Matthew 26:41- the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak)