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Personal Narrative: Learning To Adapt To The Rollercoaster Of Life

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Learning to Adapt to the Rollercoaster of Life Have you ever hit the highest peaks in your life and suddenly dropped deeper than the ocean? Almost like the adrenaline you get on a roller coaster. It goes to its highest point and then falls down at an accelerated rate. In other words, this describes the term “Life”. It may seem like the situation is all well and good, that is until the changes start to arise. It is something everyone will end up experiencing and adapting to throughout their lifetime. These changes in our lives permit us to be even more positive and more hard working, "What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same. I doubt you’d be happy so why are you so afraid of change”- Karen Salmansohn . This quote is significant because it allows individuals to open up and not be afraid of the change that is occurring in their life. Furthermore, I’ve experienced change multiple times in my life, but the most common one was moving around to different locations in the GTA. I first moved from Toronto to Ajax. A couple of years later my family decided to moved …show more content…

This relates to a play written by Shakespeare called, Macbeth. This tale is quite a bumpy roller coaster that seems to be going downhill. It is about a married couple who want to fulfill their ambitions. However, their ambition is not like any other, they want to wipe out a soul to gain more power in the kingdom. In order to murder this soul, they need to make a plan that shall not get them caught in the act. But, Macbeth does not want to waste any time and starts ahead, “but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself and falls on th’other” (Shakespeare 2.1 pg. 25). This section gives away the ambitions of Macbeth. Not everyone can bring themselves up from the rollercoaster and keep going with their lives. Some need to step down to feel like they have made a bigger

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