Personal Narrative: If I Had One Do-Over In Life

Throughout my childhood I could never say I had the most exciting life, even now I can still say that about my daily routine. Although my family put effort into nurturing me into a well-rounded member of society since youth, I never felt any change or progress personally; it was more as if I simply adapted to whatever expectations my elders had of me. I know this feeling did not apply to me only, in fact, I was once in a classroom full of fifty-two people who accommodated to whatever came their way.

As time seemed to slow down around me, I saw things I never thought I’d see. Because of our speed, I saw how the tail end of our car would swing out far enough to hit the small hatchback, injuring the mother and teenager in the front seats. I also saw the bullet fired from the NYPD police cruiser behind us, the glass from the passenger window seemingly floating in mid-air, as it just barely missed my lifelong “friend.” But as time around me slowed, I did the worst thing possible; I thought.

Let me tell you about what has impacted my life to make me the person I am today.I think the thing that has impacted my life the most is my sisters.I have two sisters who are younger than me.At first I didn’t like having sisters.At first meaning I still don’t.When I was three my first sister was born.I didn’t like her that much,and I still don’t.I hit her in the head with a hammer when she was a baby and she always acts like I hate her.Everytime i’m mad at her she hold it over my head that I hit her in the head with a hammer and put nails in her hand.I was three it wasn’t like I mean’t to kill her.

If I had one “do-over”, it would be to study math in high school more seriously. I know now how important math is in everything I have an interest in now and many good paying jobs. Having studied geometry, calculus, or trigonometry early in my life would have changed my life I am sure in many positive ways. I could have been anything I now want to be in life, from an astronomer, computer programmer, to chemists. To me my biggest do over would be to take many more math classes when I was younger and my brain more

Throughout the cycle of life, everyone passes through obstacles that seem to overrule our lives. However, a key difference is that people with autism have trouble understanding social cues made by other people in life. Those with autism know the struggles and challenges that life can offer for a person. During my life, I have overcome obstacles, but one obstacle that I would be of the utmost proud to have overcome, is completing high school.

I think if I could have one do-over moment in my life it would be the time I wet my pants in the fourth grade. It’s kind of a miniscule and irrelevant event in the grand scheme of things, but when I look back on my life I would never even think about changing any of the major events. All of the challenges that have been thrown my way have contributed to who I am. I think it’s fair to say that everyone has certain times in their lives that they would rather not experience again. We all go through tough times - whether it’s losing a loved one, losing a job, or just making a poor decision. Bad things happen no matter what you do to try to prevent it. Challenges teach us lessons and overcoming them makes us stronger. If all of the conflicts were

I have decided to reevaluate my plan because the strategies anticipated did not work due to school work, work, and taking care of the family. I planed to participate in physical activities five times a week over a duration of one hour and a half daily. Unfortunately, it was unrealistic knowing that my schedule was too constrained to follow the plan. Instead, I decided to reset my goal to workout three days a week for a period of forty minutes each day. I have changed the entire routine of my goal to make sure that I remain active. First, I froze my gym membership, second I ordered dancing video tapes since I like to dance to incorporate movements into my busy life, and lastly, for this week , I have been using YouTube videos as a form of

There’s something about writing your raw emotions on a piece of paper that allows your spirit to run free and hold no boundaries of what you can think of and it's only the moments in life that can fuel the locked potential inside you. The epiphany of my life was actually closer to this present time than in the past, about last year my family moved from New haven to Branford. In New haven I was in a program which allowed me to go to Wallingford as a district school and I spent 6 years in this program making friends and going to school all I knew from my elementary to highschool period from then was Wallingford. While schooling in Wallingford district living in New haven I had developed a skill of poetry in the midst of 8th grade. I found that

Racing thoughts encircling in tangled ways always led me back to one question, “What difference would it make?” Throughout 3 years, I was never able to figure it out until my whole life shifted. However, I always believed in the simple fact that everything happens for a reason. Meaning that every decision I’d make was destined for me to get something out of it, either learning from my mistakes, bettering myself, or recognizing my bad habits.

There have been a lot of experiences that have defined me and fundamentally changed who I am, whether it metastasized into negativity or cultivated itself into positivity, it drove my core until the very present. Even as I continue to grow, I find myself constantly being challenged in different aptitudes, fighting against forces consciously unknown to me as a child. One experience in particular that I remember, was when I was younger I had been bullied quite a bit. It was actually several racist remarks that had made me cry home to my father, whom was no help to me at all. At the time, I would like to think I knew what racism was. I knew the idea, the concept, and that that concept had rejected my being as something not equal to those who chastised

Life events can shape and change who you are, without these things happening, I wouldn’t be who I am. The first event that had a big impact was my parents getting divorced when I was six. Then, the next thing was when I changed schools going into sixth grade. I had gone to three other schools before, but this one was different for me. Last, and most importantly, is when I met my best friend.

Growing up, I was a timid kid who was not very fond of change and trying new things in life. During elementary school, I was with my parents at their restaurant all the time because they did not like the idea of me being home alone, or with a babysitter. Constantly hiding behind my parents in front of customers at the restaurant, I hardly talked with people outside of school and my home. When I started sixth grade, a family friend came over to the restaurant one day, and told me that I should practice Taekwondo under his instruction in his dojo. I was reluctant at first, but my parents highly encouraged me that I should try it because they did not want me being at the restaurant all the time since I was a kid. Thinking it over, I saw that there was no harm in trying something new with someone I was familiar with. Within a week, I agreed and started going to the classes in hopes that it would

On June, 7th of 2013 my daughter, Ayva Maria Gantt, was born prematurely. Ayva arrived three months early at 26 weeks gestation. I was originally scheduled to deliver Ayva on September 13th of 2013 at Civista hospital in La Plata, Maryland. Little did I know I would get to meet my daughter Ayva much sooner than expected. Ayva was born in Baltimore, Maryland at University of Maryland Medical Center so that she could get the care a premature born baby would need.

In my Life, I have had many experiences that have shaped me into the person that I am Today. One experience being when I was able to volunteer at the Booker T. Washington Nursing Home with the Hopewell Baptist Church Sisterhood Ministry that is based in Shreveport. Our objective was to keep the Elderly patients company and we decided entertain them by engaging in Bingo and giving them gifts in the forms of cookies, snack cakes, and toiletry items. To be perfectly honest, I didn’t know what to expect upon my arrival at the nursing home.

Every chapter of my story has medicine in some form. In some, its presence is all encompassing, a life changing singularity. In others, it hides behind anecdotes, quietly shaping my dreams and passions. The quiet moments gave me direction; the loud gave me dedication and reason.