Personal Narrative-It's Time To Leave A Mark

My legacy began when my family taught me to read. My mom and grandma took turns teaching me different letters and sounds out of an early reader. By the time I reached kindergarten, I read well enough to strengthen my skills on my own. My favorite author from kindergarten was Eric Carle. I brought home Brown Bear Brown Bear so many times that my mother told me I was not allowed to read it again.

This shows us that it isn’t easy to achieve goals. It’s actually really hard, but we should never give up because every time we fail to achieve our goal, we still learn something new. As, all of us are capable of doing lots of things that we might not be aware of yet. Now, moving on to spending time with your family and friends. On average, families only spend about 8 hours together in a week. Which sounds odd to me because right now I spend more than 20 hours with my family and friends each week. For example, my dad didn’t used to care about his studies or anything and just wanted to have fun when he was younger. But as he got to university, he realized that he has to be serious in life to get somewhere. So, he got serious with his studies and he got a rank on #1 out of twenty one collages, which I think is really hard, since before that he was almost failing. So, my point is that you can do whatever you want when you set your mind to it. Moving on to my third meaning of being human, which is learning from your mistakes: “The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.” ―Dale Carnegie. This quote reflects on my meaning of being human because I think that learning from your mistakes is something that we all do. I have made numerous mistakes since I was born, and I can say

Starting over. Those two simple words pretty much sum up where I am at in my life at the moment. I am a 34 year old mother of three. I have never been to college. My husband just recently left me. It has been a whirlwind summer to say the least, but before I get into what brought me back to school, I'll start at the beginning. I was born in FL., and quite literally spent all my time either at the beach or running bare foot on my grandparents farm. I loved every second. Shortly after I turned 8 my mom met my step-dad, and we were quickly headed on our first big adventure, moving to Texas! While I missed my family in FL., I can not tell you enough how happy I was that my mom married my dad. He has been a rock and solid foundation for me my whole

There I was on the block next to the High Bar. It was about 5:00 at night when my coach told me to do a Kip. As I got up on the bar my nose filled with the smell of chalk. I started to swing, and as I came out of my half turn I looked good. Everything seemed fine but as I came to the part of the Kip where I have to pull my legs up to the bar, I slammed my shins into the bar. My momentum was stopped and I dropped on to the mat, missing the Kip. I felt like I had let down my coach and I had let down myself too. That day I experienced failure. That failure made me want my Kip even more so I worked harder and had support from my teammates.

He knew it was going to be a no excuses to lose to weather and it was going to be a good day for fans to watch football tonight. He had met with Kyle Cannon who was the quarterback for the team and a running back on the team named Dion Gordon;

By the time your life actually winds down, you've spent most of it consumed in trying to be someone you aren't and do things that you aren't meant to do.

Walking away from everything you once knew and starting over is never a picnic. Leaving Iraq, and moving to America has impacted my life more than anything. I was only 4 years old at that time, and the only English I spoke was “excuse me, water please.” My family and I did not know it then, but our lives were going to change; we would become “Americanized”. Learning English was one of the massive changes that occurred, the way I dressed (culture), and even the way I had power to go to school and educate myself.

I was born in Australia on January 12, 1999, however I have lived on the Hawaiian Islands since I was five and for most of my life. I have traveled back to Australia several times to visit family and even though I’m an Australian i do consider myself semi-Hawaiian in a sense. To give back to the islands I would love to help the next generation to have a childhood that is filled to the brim with Hawaiian Nature. One idea to give them this experience would be to go into Waipio Valley with the children from different schools in the Big island and explore the valley with them. Some activities while we are in the valley would be hiking, examining native plants, horse riding, swimming in rivers and the ocean, and then

The lives I would touch for my legacy would be my family and friends because those are the people that care about me and what I do. That they would help me out with anything I need. My major accomplishment would be a pro soccer player and go to Rutgers College. The other accomplishment in my life would be to get very good grades in school to get a good education.

When I think of the word legacy I think of how I will be remember and what I will leave behind for generations to come. I think of people like Martin Luther King Jr and Gandhi, whose impact changes the lives of many and the world as it was known during that time. I don’t think that my impact will be received on such a big scale like Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi, and many other but hopefully I will be able to touch the people who were close to me during my lifetime.

My Legacy will be remembered as good student but not the greatest behavior. Most of my legacy will be remembered with the teachers I always had a good thing with the teachers. The teachers always liked me because I did my work and payed attention sometimes.It wil also will be with the students I left behind a good path with the teachers. The life that I touched the most would be Mrs. Codispoti she was my favorite teacher last year and we made a big impact on each other's life.

Mae West, a famous screenwriter/ actress once stated, “You only live once but if you do it right then once is enough.” Setting out into this next phase of my life called adulthood i would like to think i could accomplish every goal i have set for myself since i was little but that is just not feasible. I’d like to say i toured the world and made an impact on hundreds of individuals through my profession but none of the above is guaranteed. Therefore, around fifty years from now i would hope that i would be living comfortable, surrounded by people that love me, doing work that i am passionate about, and just truly being a happy individual.

Too often we get bogged down in our past, and in memories of events that we think define us and restrict us from moving forward. The truth is that we can decide today who we want to be. We may have some baggage, and we may have future dreams, but today is the only day where we can define who we are and what direction we want our lives to go.

Nelson Mandela once said, “What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.” Moments in our life shape who we become; our character, our thinking, who we are and who we want to be. How we live our life is so much more than going through the motions, it is about how we change other’s lives and how other’s change our life. I have been fortunate enough to grow up with astonishing people who have changed who I am and I have also had so many opportunities that have shaped who I am today.

When Jack London said “The proper function of man is to live, not exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time” he meant that you should live life and do fun stuff not just exist and waist your time, but use it wisely. For example if you want to do an extreme sport that could make your life more meaningful and make your life more worthy than a person that’s never done an extreme sport. You’re using your time more wisely by doing a extreme sport than just staying at home and sleeping. That could be a story that you could always remember, if you failed you could still tell people you attempted it which is still an accomplishment.