Personal Narrative: Stop Being Afraid Of What Could Go Wrong

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“Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and think of what could go right” Summer went with the wind. The year going into high school. The decision to either go camping or to McDonough. The fear of missing out on both opportunity and upsetting people. Close to the summer, all the kids get a magazine full of camp things. They have until the due date to turn in the letter that was attached to the magazine. In the letter, they must have information about them and their parents, also what part of camp they're attending to. The pastor daughter and my friend Kelly said that she and I should go camping together. I thought so too but my mom, on the other hand, did not. That was until Mama Ann and my sister Alexis talk some sense into her about me

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