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Personal Narrative: I Am Reciting

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Since I was a child, I’ve had quite the knack for rushing. I was one who could never stop, just keep going. I knew I had so much to achieve yet so little time as well as someone with a goal. However, until now I never realized how much sorrow the loss of a goal can cause. It just slips through fingers as if it was clear water. After pushing and struggling for so long, the prize was just beyond my reach. Alas, I would never reach out and grab it. The little change made such a big impact. To others the change that I’m reciting is not a very important feat, in fact it is a change many would laugh at. However, only I can see its importance, as it is I who has lost it. This all starts with a small video game that I know now made me the ambitious …show more content…

Now even if you’re laughing, you should know that there are so many people out there like me. It’s the same as losing a football game at the finals or breaking your leg before a major dance performance. In that case so much energy has been put to achieve a goal and it is the same in this case. The reason this change from a 4.0 to a 3.9 affected me so much was a type of peer pressure and denial. Ever since I started school I have been labeled as someone who shouldn’t fail, and if I ever did people would judge me for it. My peers would say I always got As, but if I ever got a B they would revel in the fact that I made a mistake, and I started believing them. I started obsessing over my grade, pulling all nighters just to perfect a paper or stuff more information into my head for a test. Then I had a head injury and couldn’t learn or think as fast, which caused my 4.0 to slowly change to a 3.9. This had never happened to me before, I could never say I was a straight A student anymore. I grew obsessive over this and I was devastated. I knew that I was at a disadvantage with the head injury, and I didn’t let life go on like I should have. I didn’t understand at the time that this wasn’t a big deal, but now I accept this was just another change I had to overcome and that this wasn’t the end of the world. I will still persevere but a small mistake will not distress me ever

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