Personal Narrative-Changing

My mother, frantic as she was, called the police to file a report on the truck driver that has put my life at a great risk as well as my father and sister. However, no response, to my knowledge, was given back. No call from them stating that they have found the driver or any other aspects to the investigation. It has become a forgotten memory even to the other members of my family; yet for me, I remember it and will never forget. Confusion overcame my fear in that moment as barrages of questions plagued my mind: Was that real? Could I have died? Would everything be over that quickly? Why hasn't justice been served? Why isn't this working out for me? These questions made me realize that such drastic changes in your plan of life, how small or large they are, will always have a lasting

We all have those moments that will change not only our lives and hearts forever. The past six years of my life have been filled with these moments. When the word cancer was first introduced to me, I had no idea what an impact this disease would have on my life at the time.

I’ve had many moments that I didn’t know would change my life, but they ended up impacting me in a big way. One moment was when I applied for kindergarten at my old school. I was only three, so I had no idea how important that time would be. I ended up on the waiting list, but I got in. That school had a huge influence on me. I loved going there. I made many friends that I will have forever, and I learned so much. I had no idea that school would mean so much to me, but looking back on it, it was a huge part of my childhood. Another time was when I interviewed to get into Park. Being accepted to Park and choosing to go to this school took me on a completely different path than if I had gone somewhere else. Right now, I’m in the process of applying to high schools. I don’t know what will happen, but one moment can change everything. In the future I’m also going to have to apply to colleges. There are also other moments that changed my life. An example is when my mom signed me up for gymnastics. I didn’t know I would like it so much, but now I love it. This has had an impact on my identity and the the schools I’ve attended have too. I’m still young, so I’m going to have many times that will change my life and identity in the

On a cold winter, rainy night while driving from one duty station to the next was where my vehicle spun around, flipping, tossing and causing my life to unfold and facing a loss like no other. The turmoil of life hit me hard just from this single tragedy alone. My vehicle was totaled, I loss conscious and was rushed to the hospital. Never expected such an incident to occur so abruptly and rob me of all my self-worth. I’ve became someone, someone incapacitated, not able to function like I normally should.

It all happened so quickly. One moment, a boy was waving to his friends, and the next, he was lying in the street. I heard the screech of brakes and a loud crash. The car’s windscreen was completely shattered. People were screaming and crying, and without thinking, I ran into the street, knelt down beside him, and called 911.

"In life, there are times when we choose our challenges and other times when the challenges simply choose us” - Travis Roy. I don’t remember what happened to me, I was told I was hit by a car. I was placed in a medically induced coma, for a month. Slowly, the doctor lowered the sedatives to see how I can breathe on my own, within six weeks everything was removed. I woke up; there were family and friends around my hospital bed. I was confused because I had no idea what happened. Mom and Uncle Ray told me stories about how angry I was and would try to get out of bed.

As my father and I watched NASCAR on television, my father told the three of us that we were going for a ride. As we walked to my father’s old-fashioned 2-door Grand Prix, my father asked me to take the wheel. I refused promptly and my father told my middle sister to sit in the driver’s seat. As my father explained to us the different gears in the car and the distinction between the gas and brake pedal, my legs started to tremble. Flashbacks of the lawn mower accident clouded my thoughts. I thought about the consequences that I would face if I hit someone and if the car was even capable of making sharp turns on deep curves. As the car started to move, I almost panicked, but soon realized that I was not behind the wheel. My father let my sister ride on the edge of the yard in a complete square. As we approached the front of the yard, my eyes, accidently, glanced over to the bird bath that still remained after all these years. To avoid throwing away the bird bath, my father placed the seahorse back on top of the bird bath’s structure. As I stared at the bird bath, visions of that day taunted me. I knew that I that I was not emotionally capable of driving a car due to my traumatic experience with the lawn mower, which equates to almost one third of a

As I look up at the burnt orange sky I feel like I could forget where I am and what I am. I love watching the sky, during the day, at night, at sunrise and sunset there isn’t one time the sky disappoints me. As I walk home from college and watch the sunset morph I can’t help but feel blessed, everything still isn’t perfect but it’s going to be.

We all have a moment in our lives where we experience something that changes the course of our lives. Sometimes it is a great thing, like winning the lottery or receiving a promotion. But sometimes it is the terrible things in life that have such profound impacts on our futures. For me, it all happened in the time between seconds.

“Dimitri, get off your Xbox and come do your chores before I ground you!” she yelled basically every day.

I made my living, betting on races. I spent the last few years on my computer analysing the common traits that winning horses displayed. This had enabled me to win millions of dollars from betting. I kept this secret to everyone, as I didn’t need anyone else to steal my idea. It built me up, to what I am today. I was a wealthy landlord, one that owns acres of land across Australia. Until that day, Tuesday the 3rd of November 2015, The Melbourne Cup. On that day, a day I thought that would have been routine, but turned out anything but the word. A rival of mine, had bet all of his belongings on a particular horse, he challenged me to do the same, I, oblivious to the fact that he was in talks with the owner of the company, and didn’t actually bet anything, bet everything as well. My houses, all my cars, my land, everything I owned. I was so confident with the software that I made, that I thought I couldn’t lose. What I didn't know was that my laptop was being tampered with as we were speaking. As the race commenced, my bet placed. I watched as the events that would change my life unfold…

families see me cry, I began to walk around the church. Suddenly I see two

“Almost two years later we all moved back in with my mother and father. My mother seemed better, but not for long and had to go back to the hospital. This time we did not leave because we were old enough to look out for ourselves and the younger ones.” Did the relationship change between you and your mother, when she returned home? “No, absolutely not, in fact, it worsened if that is possible. My mother would kick only me out, for no reason, I would sleep in cars for days at a time. Children would laugh at me because I had holes in my shoes and pants. Ha, but what could I do? So I just had to toughen it out and took the laughter. Now children put holes on their jeans, back then people would laugh for hours. It is crazy how the times have changed.” Wow, you were so young to suffer such abandonment and to be put into situations such as those. “Yeah, at the time I thought it was my fault, then I realized I had not done anything, and I knew never to treat anyone the way I had been all my life.” How was it with all the brothers back together? “My two oldest

I was asked to choose an incident or a personal experience that changed my perspective on the world or me as a person. Personally, I not only had an experience that would just change my perspective, but it changed me as a person and helped me grow into who I am today. Roughly a year and a half ago an event occurred that taught me an extremely important life lesson that everyone should know and learn throughout their lifetime. All too often, people take many things for granted in life, whether it is incredibly important in our eyes. When we reach the point in time where we are so comfortable with something or someone, we begin to take it for granted and seldom realize that until it’s missing. I began to realize very quickly what I had and how I was taking it for granted when it hit me, literally.

Have you ever had an utterly insignificant moment change your life? A moment that if it had not had an unforeseen consequences you would have completely forgotten it? These moments are the things that most of our lives are made up of. Some are small like, what would have happened if you decided eat at a pizza restaurant instead of a Mexican restaurant. Some are big like, taking a right turn when you needed to go left, making you late for work, and your boss upset with you. It’s these little moments where we made decisions or accidents that make our lives the way they are. There in one moment in my life that had it not caused quite a difference in my present and future I would have forgotten about it. I would have probably never thought