I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning to sail my ship. --Louisa May Alcott

This aphorism to me means that one is willing to take risks because even if a person fails she is learning from what she did wrong. Many times in my life I have taken the risk to do an activity and failed but did not give up and learned what I did wrong. In life a person is always experiencing trial and error, one has to fail at least once to learn how to do it the correct way. This aphorism to me also means one is learning how to cope with bad news, and still keep going with their everyday life. In life a person hits many obstacles but it is their own choice if they want the obstacle ruin them or let them learn from it. I choose to have all obstacles in my life let me learn and see the positive in everything.
A time in my life when I wasn’t afraid of the storm, for I was learning to sail my ship even if I was in pain and doubted that I would ever get out of the storm, was when I lost my grandpa to cancer. He was my role model, my rock, my go to man when I was upset, the man who could make me smile even when I didn’t want to, and most importantly my best friend. When I lost him I was in seventh grade, I didn’t really know what to think, I couldn’t wrap my mind around what happened. I knew he was sick and he wasn’t doing very well at all, but I did not think it would happen that soon. I was not ready to say goodbye. He was the one that kept me going, he was always smiling even when he was in pain. My grandpa was the strongest man I knew, he had fought cancer on and off for 13 years. Seeing him lay there in his hospital bed at Mercy Hospital in room 2416 was just heart wrenching. I thought to myself he had always been so strong why is he giving up the fight now? He always told me to stay strong why was he not? I could not process why he wasn’t? To this day I still do not understand