Personal Narrative: 17-Year Differences

Everything is perfectly fine, everything is great, then one day it all comes crashing down and shattered pieces are left. My life would never be the same but I guess change is for the best and it forced me to become the person I am today. It’s rough to be the oldest child, especially when your mom is diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and you have 3 younger sisters that look to you for comfort when their mom can’t be there. When the cancer is spread throughout your moms body doctors can’t just get rid of it no matter how badly you wish they could. Rounds of chemotherapy only slow it down, yet it’s still there a lurking monster waiting to reappear at any given moment. Nothing can even begin to describe the fear I felt, and still have to deal

It was a couple days before my 12th birthday, and my parents called me into the living room. When I walked in they handed me a birthday card and told me to open it. I was kinda confused as to why they gave it to me early because they have never done it and when I saw what was inside I became very excited.

My daughter’s first birthday, which was July 18th, 2007, is a day that I remember like it was yesterday. We had already celebrated her birthday with the family over the weekend, so I had just planned to do something small with her. I decided I would take her to Water Works, a community family aquatic center that we lived by. When I was younger, my family would get a membership every summer, and I couldn’t wait to do the same with Lauren. My sister, Amanda, who was watching our four year old nephew Charlie, was off that day, so they came along too.

I sped to my house, surprised that I hadn't crashed or had been stopped by a cop. I gently parked my baby, my white Mercedes wagon and got out. I walked inside our house and that's when it hit me.

I was nine months pregnant when one early morning I felt a gush of water flow out of me. I gasp and said "it's time." No one was home except for me. To make sure it was finally time to give birth I waited until the contraction where four minutes apart. As I was changing my pants I then called my parents who were at work. "Oh no, are you ready for some pain," my mother told me as she laughed her heart out. "Mom don’t scare me," I frantically told her. Just then my aunt had just arrived from work and I quickly ran downstairs to tell her it was time. As she rushed me to the hospital I began thinking about how much my life would now feel complete. It's like I had a friend who heard me cry, who listen to me talk, who ate what I would eat. It was

In American Culture its commonplace for someone to promise they “won’t tell a soul”,after hearing another person’s secret. This phrase is often uttered when the secret is negative. In cases of child abuse these words may not be uttered, but the child is left with the understanding that the incident isn’t to be discussed. The abuser may threaten to do further harm to the victim, if they tell anyone about what happened. In other instances the child may not want anyone else to know because they feel ashamed about the abuse; guilt, and betrayal are also common emotions experienced by victims of abuse. I know because over the past twenty-six years, I’ve experienced all of them. Although, my need to experience the unconditional

Once my family, Flint, and I were out fishing the day before my birthday and we stayed out there till 3:00 in the morning which meant it was my birthday. That day it kind of taught me that you can have a great time on your birthday without presents or a party. Being surrounded around by people that mean a lot to you is so important and some people don’t realize that.

i apologized about this , I didn't realize it was that many hours he, but I know there would be some over time this week we had couple of incident , the day we had to do Eric and ken write-up I had him site in both , also the Sunday training added to it , he also went over Tuesday when we did the Ops meeting , this is not the norm I will keep the hours in check

Have you tried and failed to get together with a girl or guy? Well this roller-coaster of a story will surely get you to empathize or sympathize with me, or maybe if it is that big of a failure to you, both.

It was the day of my great grandmother’s 97th birthday. Everyone was excited about it, because it was a planned surprise birthday party. While my family

In my three years of being here I’ve learned so much. Managing time is key. In the beginning I was pretty good at it but as I got better I’ve learned how to better my time. Really in my opinion you can’t teach someone maybe to some extent you can but not really. It has to do with experience with time management you need to fail once or twice before understanding the importance and how much it really does help. In life I’ve always had an easy time with managing my time so this wasn’t much of an issue with me. My career goals have been magnified since being here, realizing that what I want to do in life might actually be my reality. In this day and age not many people can say that. Through the Ferris classes I took here I was able to save fifteen thousand

One of the memories I recall the most during an ordinary day, occurred when I was 3 and my sister, Lilah, was born. That night in the hospital, I had no clue what was going on, I was three. When it came time for me to actually meet my sister, I was so in awe that I wanted a child of my own. I thought that it would have been the best thing in the world, and that I was going to be a five star mom with all these cool things. I told the nurses that I wanted a child for myself, and they actually got one for me. Not what you’re thinking, they went and got me a baby doll named Marvin. Come time that I saw the toy, I was very mad that they didn’t actually bring me a child. I threw a fit and my parents came home with two crying children. To this day,

Throughout the semester I have noticed my writing grow significantly. Some of my work was a bit sketchy but that could be fixed by proofreading. I did not like writing all of my papers but I did enjoy the reading involved for the book reviews.

unexpected, unplanned surprise. Both of my parents were young and had no idea on how to raise a baby so I bounced around from house to house my first couple years of IJe. Around the age of four my mother somewhat got the hang of the whole parenting thing to the best of her abilities. By this time my mother had another baby this time a little boy named Nolan and was pregnant with my youngest brother Tyler. All was going well until my grandmother passed away from breast cancer. After, the death of her mother my

It was my birthday. Two things that I never thought would happen. One was me getting a chocolate lab I named Hazel,the second was losing a loved one.These two thing happened on one day that I will love and hate for the rest of my life.