Testimonies: Coping with hardship in today's society 16 Articles

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by Jimmy Nightingale

Many of the articles under this topic catalog all manner of hardships and adversity and my heart goes out to all of you. Few though actually deal with the question of coping. Coping is hard. Trying to go about the every...read more

by Gloria Diaz

I am dealing with hardship right now for probably the first time in my life. I know I am not the only person in bad shape right now. Things were actually looking up when I got my first trucking job. It was a plum job; I...read more

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by John Cargile

As adults we tend to look fondly on our high school years, occasionally musing "what if" in relation to academics, athletics, social activities, and friendships. Or we ponder what high school is like now for students. For...read more

by Tobias Van Buren

SUDDENLY HOMELESS! I once started to write a song - "HOMELESSNESS IS HAPPINESS", to the tune of another known song. I guess I was trying to FIND happiness within my homelessmess, but that did not immediately happen, ma...read more

by David Mckeown

Hardship comes to all at some point, however enough is enough. I am an ex military member retired for close to 20 years, since I was still in my late thirties I deferred my pension until I am 60 years old (mistake). My exp...read more

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by Robin Anderson

I'll tell you what it's like to cope with hardship in today's society, I am a mother of 3 teenagers whom are very intelligent, I have been married to my hard working husband for fifteen years. my husband works at a dead en...read more

by Ashley Gassman

"Hitting rock bottom" has been the most stressful, depressing, and most of all, unforgettable time in my life. I believe, if it were not for the true hardships that I have encountered in my life, I would not value or appr...read more

by Tami Roxanne Barker Norman

Testemonies: Coping with hardships in today's society Coping with hardships is deffinently common and widely spread throughout todays society that we live in. These hardships are in a variety of forms and factors of wh...read more

by James Prior-Glen

I have excepted death as a part of life and as step to a new plain, but what is socially acceptable when as a result of a death you loss all that means anything to you. Why should a person who has suffered be told by socie...read more

by Firoze Hirjikaka

Foreigners like me could perhaps be forgiven for believing that it does not take a whole lot to cause mental anguish, pain and suffering, blah-blah, to a typical American. This thought occurred to me, as I was reading a...read more

by Jimmy Quinones

During a visit to an office building in a Caribbean city where regularly blackouts take place due to the weakness of the energy national system, I took the elevator toward floor 9 and suddenly everything when black, total ...read more

by Caysea Conner

What is the differences in teengaers and adults copeing with life? I.Teenagers feel everything is out to get them. They are Growing up and many of them are scared to death, but are afriad to show it. They cope this by a...read more

by Rose North

I write this at the most confusing time of my life, not even two months after my father has passed away. It's been hard to go out and feel completely able to return to a "normal" schedule. I see society carry on in wha...read more

by Sherry Ward

In my teens, I was raped and it resulted in my having a baby and then I got married at 15 years old. My husband whom I was going with when I was raped thought the baby was his. So I kept the baby for 8 months. I couldn't...read more

by Lizzie Harrison

I am the proud mother of a twenty-two year old disabled son. When he was first diagnosed with an incurable disease that would render him wheelchair bound, the first order of business was just trying to get through and fu...read more

by Sherry Brown

Hardship has always been a relative term. Everyone faces some obstacles in his or her life. In today's society, a hardship could be many different things. Physical handicaps, economic depravity, racial discrimination, rel...read more