Trials are difficulties in our lives that shape us and give us the potential to make us great. ‘Without trials, we would never know true happiness.’ We have all heard phrases similar to this one many times but, there is one person who I look up to and strongly admire because of her determination to succeed even without the help of her eyesight and hearing. Helen Keller once said, “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
In 1880, Helen Keller was born with all of her senses. It wasn’t until at a young age, she was struck with sickness and lost her eyesight and hearing. Being impaired at such a young age, she never learned how to properly act or communicate. That is, until her parents found her a teacher by the name of Ann Sullivan who taught her the meaning of words through touch. Ann became Helen's great friend and lifelong mentor.
Throughout Helen's life, people didn’t think that she held the potential to do what everyone else could because she couldn't see or hear but, Helen proved everyone wrong when she graduated Radcliffe College, wrote several books, received multiple honorary awards, one of which was her induction into the Hall of Fame, toured the world speaking to thousands about her trials in hopes to make a difference in peoples lives, and she helped found the American Civil Liberties Union as well as Helen Keller International to combat the causes and consequences of blindness and malnutrition. Helen Keller was very successful in her lifetime. It wasn’t easy and she had to endure many hard trials to succeed, but she did it.
It is easy to become frustrated when things aren’t going as planned. I personally get frustrated because of this, but when I think about Helen Keller and the things she went through, I truly have no reason to complain. Everyone has different trials that they have to face but anything is possible with hard work. Helen Keller is the apidimi of this. She didn’t let her trials limit her success. She once wisely said, “Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” She is an American icon that I look up to because she knows the true meaning of hard work and determination. If Helen Keller wasn’t determined to succeed, she might not have been able to accomplish half of the things she did.
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