Personal Narrative Essay : My Personal Experience In My Life

My entire life, I’ve known that there was something a little different about me. The way that my classmates interacted with each other was always strange to me. Valentine’s Day didn’t make sense and watching Disney movies where the princess always gets her prince just didn’t feel right. I tried to think like my male classmates and feign feelings for girls. It was not until middle school when I finally began to understand exactly why I was so different. I’m gay. And this scared me.

The wind was blowing and leaves were falling, it was fall. It was my favorite time of year. I stood out on my front porch and soaked up the fall breeze and the pumpkin spice smells. Everything was perfect and for a moment it felt like there was nothing wrong with my life. Then I heard her, it was my Mom.

I didn’t know how to grow up. No one was there to tell me what I should say and, more importantly, what I shouldn’t say to others.

The air was cold, bone chilling cold. A day like any other, or so we thought. We had just moved from Sedona, a small town in Arizona that was known for its beauty in the nature. We left because my dad got a new job as an electrical engineer at some big company based out of Ohio.

When asked to write a personal essay I pondered the many things that I could write about and nothing seemed quite right but one of the events that I truly believe changed my life. That is why I chose to write about basic and what I have learned from being in the army. Everyone has their own stories so no one will have a story that is similar to mine because everyone's life is different. That’s what makes mine stand out, I can guarantee that my reader will be able to experience something that they themselves have not even if they have been to basic themselves. My hook in the beginning is actually how I wanted my whole essay to be, but the more that I wrote the more my essay changed to a more inner thought sort of essay. This change hurt me later on though when I changed from past tense to present tense and back again without catching it. This was an easy fix however and some of my other minor errors were brought to my attention by Alex in my writing group when we switched documents with each other.

Aleigha’s eyebrows raised and her bright, baby blue eyes got big as she relized she could have drowned but she was happy she survived! One day she woke up to a massive flood, her house was flooded everything was all over the floors looked like an earthquake hit them up. Things were all over the place people were outside on canoes helping to save the drowning, the whole city was flooded. She new she had to get out of there as fast as she could but first her and her mom have to board up all the windows then they need to evacuate. They step outside and BOOM get hit with strong wind and heavy rain! Mom is scared she looks at Aleigha and says ”Aleigha i can’t do this we are going to just have to stay”. Aleigha answers back as she cries and says

UP TO THAT DAY, I'd had a Brady Bunch, cookie-cutter, beautiful life. I now know what it's like to have a 110-story building that's been hit by a 767 come down on my head. For better or for worse, it's part of my life. There are things I never thought I'd know that I now know.

Ever since I can remember, I've always been a source of worry for my mother; I fear that this will never change. Regardless of this, I know that my mother is a very strong, persevering woman, and that if need be; she will carry on.

I sighed as I labored through page 56 of the MAT Study Guide. I was preparing for the notorious college entrance exam, but I felt extremely meek in comparison to other tests.

I’ve known I was gay ever since the age of ten. I went to a Christian high school in Nicaragua and was actively involved in leadership positions and volunteering jobs like translating, so coming out at that time was not an option for me. I always kept my sexuality at the back of my mind because it would ruin my image of the Christian leader that I was to all the students who saw me in this position of leadership. Since I started at the University of Waterloo, I was not as active in clubs like I was in high school. Consequently, the image that I was so used to displaying never went into effect during my first year; I could be whoever I wanted to be and no one would think either less or more of me. This led to allowed me to accept my sexuality exponentially, and of course struggle with the truth I was running away from my whole high school life. I wouldn’t go as far to say that I became depressed over acknowledging my homosexuality, but it sure provided me with a lot of stress and questions I would ask myself: what will my friends say? What will my sister think? How am I going to tell this to my parents? Who am I going to come out first to?

The Ponyville weather team struggled with weather patrol duties when Rainbow Dash took an outstanding vacation from work. Although they cleared most of the rain clouds from the morning’s rainfall, a few scattered clouds hung over Ponyville, but the sun remained dominate with its sunlight shinning on the land. Despite Rainbow being on her well-deserved vacation—considering that she would often be left with most of the work load through insurmountable excuses of either sickness or lateness from her co-workers—she had the heart to quickly assist her team; after all, she was their captain.

The heavy sky, swollen with unspent rain, sagged toward the earth. It was a raining day. I didn’t think I have ever been so serious before. “..When did my mom lose her voice?” I asked my grandma with a heavy tone.

Anger comes from many places. Throughout my past, my main critical adversary was competitive sports, baseball to be specific. In my final baseball game I learned many things about myself. There were two strikes on me in the first inning and I swung and missed on the final pitch. From that one swing I dove into a two year slump from which anger controlled my life. Accordingly, I was at a crossroad, and had a decision to make!

I wandered around town for what felt like an hour looking at all the shops and exhibits for tourists. The town was old looking but nice. Reminding me of a old German town. Finally I ended up on the outskirts of town close to the dense forest that surrounded the town. I checked my watch 1:02. Guess I should get some lunch. PSH CRUNCH CRUNCH. I heard something in the woods. I looked but saw nothing probably a rabbit it is the woods after all. I started to walking again CRUNCH.

I never really thought about where my life was going. I always believed life took me where I wanted to go, I never thought that I was the one who took myself were I wanted to go. Once I entered high school I changed the way I thought. This is why I chose to go to college. I believe that college will give me the keys to unlock the doors of life. This way I can choose for myself where I go instead of someone choosing for me.