When Life Is Hard

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When Life is Hard, Find Your Escape And You Can Conquer Anything There are times in everybody’s life when life becomes too stressful to deal with. You have endless amounts of homework, you had a bad day at work or you and your boyfriend just broke up. For everyone it’s a different hardship they have to get through but everyone has a way to cope with it. In the article “My 6,128 Favorite Books” Joe Queenan talks about how when he first started reading at the age of seven and how after he just picked up one book he couldn’t stop borrowing books. Then in the article he goes on to explain how he selects his books and how he got to 6,128 books. For Queenan his obsession with books was not just about reading it was about getting through life and being able to escape from everything he was going through and pretend how much better life was or could be. Even though Queenan faced different challenges his article “My 6,128 Favorite Books” reminds me a lot of myself and how I got into running. At first it just started as exercise but as life got harder it became more and more important to have in my life and helped me get through my daily challenges with myself. Queenan made me realize even when life is hard, find your escape and you can conquer anything. It all began my junior year when cheer season ended and I decided not to go back my senior year. At first I thought it was the best decision ever, I would have more free time to do whatever I wanted. A month after of no more practice and just doing nothing around my house I realize maybe it wasn’t my best decision. All my friends were cheerleaders and were all too busy with practice to hangout or their jobs, I soon began to miss my three hour practices because they gave me a sense of belonging and a place where I fit in, I didn’t know who I was anymore. A few more months went by and I kept feeling worse and worse about

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