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Personal Narrative Essay

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I have heard the phrase, “life isn’t easy”, so many times in my life. And I finally realized the truth in it.
It all started in the 9th grade, the first big hurdle. I was not quite sure what I wanted to do with my life. My mother wanted me to be a doctor and continue the family career choice, so I went with it. I took all Honors/AP classes, but the one elective that I wished to continue throughout high school was, theatre. I always had an interest in it. I was not a part of that world. My world before I moved to Alabama was figure skating. Due to money issues, I could not continue it, so I chose a new opportunity for a dream of “fame”. Everybody just believed it was a hobby, so I did too. My focus was on my academics. I was friends with a lot of people, but my best friend, Van and I were inseparable. I took friendship to the heart, it was hard for me to consider somebody to be my best friend, let alone, just my friend. Everyone was just considered an acquaintance. Van and I were both Asian. “What does that have to do with anything?” is what many people thought. Well, it had to deal with everything. We were able to relate to each other, with us both having “dragon” parents who pressured us about our grade, who would not allow …show more content…

I did not have anyone truly that I could talk to throughout the day, I was going in blind, hoping to make new friends in my classes since the theatre people I befriended were all in the 12th grade. In the end, there was a girl who was in four of my classes out of seven, Samantha. Samantha was actually the first person to ever talk to me when I moved down to Alabama, we just never truly became friends until now. Everything was going well, I was put as the stage manager for The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), Samantha and I became best friends, (which to this day, we still are best friends), I had no issues with my studies, life seemed to be pleasing for a

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