Personal Narrative: My Growth As A Young Adult

My growth as a writer has been going uphill since the very first mini paper. I came to Heartland Community College thinking, I was an okay writer. They told me when I took the placement test I wrote a college level but I didn’t see it myself. I would look at other classmates work and be kind of upset with myself for not making the same choices they did. Maybe I could have changed a word or maybe talked about a different subject and try to not go off topic so much. Well if it wasn’t a Gladwell paper because he tends to go off topic in his papers. The break up letter took me so long to do, I was so nervous because I didn’t want to sound like a high school kid and get a bad great for not pushing myself to the next level.

14 years of age and still growing. I would say that I’ve experienced being adult, but I’ve got 4 more years for that. What I have experienced is my coming of age,and transforming over my years of life. Typically, being the outgoing person I am today, you would think I’m an interesting person, doing a lot of fun things. I’m actually not though. Besides the fact that I’m a troublemaker and a person that doesn’t really make a lot of friends now that I am older. My only close friends are from when I was younger. I find it harder for me to make more friends now that I am in Highschool. I also find it easier for me to work better, harder, and more efficient on any of my school work. That’s just about me now. I’ll tell you how I succeeded on who I am today, and the obstacles it took me to get here.

It all happened about 5 years ago my husband lost his job and things began to go

I spoke with Shawn yesterday before I left and was received with some push back from him. I mentioned to him that I had walked by portable grilling and the displays still have not been tied down form yours and mine previous conversation. In return he stated that he didn’t think they needed to be tired down and where was that even mentioned. I told him it was a safety issue that’s why I was mentioning it. He said he didn’t think a little tiny portable grill needed to be. I mentioned then the tall webers and smokers, what about them and asked him if he cared if a customer would get hurt by tipping one of the shelf onto themselves. I also mentioned that I had mentioned this to Bill the LP from Hannibal and he would be checking it also.

Change is the constant thing in the world. From infancy till now many dramatic changes take place in my life physically, mentally, emotionally, psychologically intellectually etc.

While big events can make major changes, little events define how we become as adults. My earliest memories is at a five year-old. It is one spot where I have been to, in my thoughts, more than any other has. In this memory, it was evening, as I stood on a dirt path. It was an unpaved driveway for the church parsonage.

As adolescents, our brains are just starting to develop to help our bodies and our personalities mature. Hormonal changes in boys and girls include adrenarche, gonadarche, and menarche (King 2002). Adrenarche usually begins when a child is between the ages of 6 and 8 and controls skeletal growth, skin changes, and hair growth. Gonadarche contributes to the growth of genitals and breasts and menarche refers to the beginning of girl’s menses. Menarche comes later in the advanced stages. Although these phases of development happen outside of the brain, they are the first change that an adolescent goes through and the increase in hormones can cause mood swings and different ways of thinking.

Growing up life was rough. I came from a broken family, where my biological father who was a Colombian native born but here on papers and had trouble finding employment in Miami. He a some point gave up finding employment that was legal, that he then turned to something illegal and later faced 15 years for money laundering. While my father was doing what he believed was everything at that point possible to take care of my then teenage mother, little brother and I, my mother saw it as an opportunity to pawn my brother and I off to whoever would watch us and go out mingling with a man who later became my step father, once Marshall's got hold of my father and sentenced him. When my father left we lost everything including our mother, even though

Growing up I thought the things that define my life would be way different by the time I turned twenty but they've stayed same. The things that define me most are music, books and my clothing. I don't plan on changing them any time soon.

It was the time for the transferal into adulthood, or at least to start acting the part. The days of just stepping through this thing called life—lackadaisically—were over. The playgrounds were morphing, but at the time I didn’t know into what. With new and anticipated responsibilities, things started to become a real pain in the ass and at the same time really interesting.

Here I am, a twenty-seven-year-old. I never dated anyone or even had a real job. Today, I am face to face with a prostitute. Let me just say I am clueless when it comes to anything sexual. And to be clear, I am not attractive. I am full of scars and I am literally skin and bones. I think to myself, “Why I’m I here?”, “Is this what it means to be an adult?”. Well let me tell you a story of my depression incident with loneliness.

Enhancing into the adolescent stage of our lives is riddled with both mental and academic challenges. During this complicated stage of our lives, we begin to understand our purpose and identity. Being part of the youth in our society demands us to overcome the stereotypes and labels that are forced upon us. Having your parents break the news of moving to another state is not your ideal news as a teenager. Moving into a new state, demands you to get out of your comfort zone and adapt to the new environmental changes. Moving to the state of New Jersey from New York, caused an intense amount of anxiety within me. My concern was solely on whether I would be able to continue my academic path that I was previously on. However, I was unaware of the

After self- assessing my development throughout the years, it has really opened my eyes to how much I grew as a person. I believe that I have resolved all my issues with each of the stages, although one stage took me a little longer to complete. The sixth stage I am still in progress in anticipations to successfully complete it. Assessing my life I saw growth and understanding of what I personally view, although there is more to learn and experience that life will bring. The second stage was my most difficult stage to process through because of my parents’ separation and upsetting to see it consumed most of my life, but I am happy that I can finally after all these years move pass my parents’ divorce and accept it. Moving pass an emotional

This weekend I took my sister and the special needs adult I work with to see the new peanuts movie. The girl Rachel that I work with does not like loud noises. When we first got into the movie theater she had a melt down because of the noise. As she started crying I was getting up to take her out of the movie theater. When I got up I saw that everyone was staring at her because of it. I do not know why people make such a big deal when it comes to special needs adults and children. They have melt downs just like any 3 or 4-year-old does.

Becoming an adult is a milestone I anxiously awaited to arrive. It’s only second to turning sixteen and being able to drive. I turned eighteen recently and immediately felt like I was an adult, and I let everyone around me know it. My parents, however, were not amused and did not agree with me. Needless to say, the arguments began. In my frustration, I wanted to know, when will I finally be an adult? Did it happen when I turned eighteen? Is it when I move out of my parents’ house? Is it when I graduate from college and have my first grown-up job? Is it when I’m completely financially independent?