what challenges have you overcome?
@amadeo (111938)
United States
January 22, 2019 12:03pm CST
This is what I am asking you are you willing to talk to a stranger bout difficult time
Sharing your experience with this?
tell me your accomplishment that you are proud of.
For me learning the game of tennis at a late age.
When I say late we are talking in the fifties and sixties yrs.
Took lesson for a time and played a lot can accomplish what I wanted.
To be a better tennis player.Which I have done and accomplish.
What challenge have you overcome?
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@DianneN (247184)
• United States
22 Jan 19
Funny you mentioned tennis. I played all afternoon and just got home.
I've been struggling with golf since I started playing in college at age 19, and I hope that hole in one counts!
I think my greatest challenge was taking a crash course in French at our local university before our first trip to Paris. I was so afraid that we'd have language barriers and couldn't make our needs known. As it turned out, many spoke English, but many did not, so it came in very handy.
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@andriaperry (117146)
• Anniston, Alabama
22 Jan 19
My worst enemy "was" me, I had to learn to trust myself when making a living as a landlady, the fact that I could make the repairs, to stand up to the bullies that I sometimes got, unknowingly, and I could run this business alone.
Then it was this land, I had to tame this land, with every man that came by said "was impossible" I did it all alone, just me and a mower.
Now I am in a new place, I am overcoming those nasty little voices that say " are you sure?"
I think we will always have challenges to overcome, till the day we die. Not allowing those challenges to stop us from moving on it the prize.
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@amadeo (111938)
• United States
22 Jan 19
@andriaperry yes your right there angie.Nothing to stop you
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@quantum2020 (12041)
• Ciudad De Mexico, Mexico
22 Jan 19
I was able to skate about five km, even though, I had never used skates before. More than five falls to the grond and afew scratches on ,my arms were the marks made of that experience
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@amadeo (111938)
• United States
23 Jan 19
@quantum2020 that is great.I for one was a terrible skater.
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
22 Jan 19
Escaping the cult, graduating at 28, getting poems and stories and my pending book published
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@amadeo (111938)
• United States
23 Jan 19
@arthurchappell that is a good accomplished there.I wish you well.
@spicysweetie21 (2573)
• United States
25 Jan 19
The biggest challenge I ever faced would definitely be getting sober and staying sober for 2 1/2 years now. I used to drink all day every day, and I did that because I didn't have to want to think about things or feel things (I didn't have the greatest childhood) and so I drank the pain away. It was a serious challenge to stop that and feel the pain, but it gave me the ability to finally build a truly wonderful life
@Tampa_girl7 (50541)
• United States
23 Jan 19
It's wonderful that you learned something that you have loved so much.
@amadeo (111938)
• United States
23 Jan 19
@Tampa_girl7 yes I am.Always love sport
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@amadeo (111938)
• United States
23 Jan 19
@Tampa_girl7 so sorry to hear this.How is your vision now?
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@Tampa_girl7 (50541)
• United States
23 Jan 19
@amadeo I tried to play tennis when I was a teenager, but my vision is too poor to see the tennis ball.
@just4him (317245)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
23 Jan 19
That's great you overcame the challenge of learning tennis at an older age.
My challenge was going to college in my forties and graduating with a good grade point average in a difficult course - Architecture. I overcame and accomplished math I never would have attempted as it was the hardest subject for me all through school, yet I overcame math and achieved a B in tech math and an A in Physics.
@dgobucks226 (35762)
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23 Jan 19
We have something in common although I learned tennis at a much earlier age 27. Through a lot of effort, study and practice I became good enough to coach in college and also instruct kids and adults at camps and park programs.
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@amadeo (111938)
• United States
23 Jan 19
@dgobucks226 that is great there.Our instructor does this also.
When I learn tennis.I was playing racquet ball for some time.
then the team broke up and one of my friends ask me if I want to play tennis.Sure.Did not want to give up anything.
I still go on the court hit a few and a standby just in case someone needs a fourth.
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@amadeo (111938)
• United States
27 Jan 19
@dgobucks226 Good he crushed him.sorry.But he did.I love that man.
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@dgobucks226 (35762)
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27 Jan 19
@amadeo Good for you Alfredo! Just finished watching the Australian Open. I was rooting for Rafa but Novak was just to good today.
@WiseGhots (14606)
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22 Jan 19
@amadeo I had a problem with a near drowning years ago.
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@amadeo (111938)
• United States
22 Jan 19
@WiseGhots Oh yes this will do it.My ex wife had the same problems.
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@MATTKARVAR (78)
• Tehran, Iran
23 Jan 19
I couldn't forget about my girlfriend and let go all of our common memories. My whole life was in shock but eventually I could over come.