Personal Essay On Automotive Mechanics

At first, I never thought me being good at something would get me in so much trouble. Doing the things you are good at can be dangerous and mess you up big time on whatever other things you are good at. This was basically me on my freshman year of high school, I was so hooked into auto mechanics that I was losing track of everything that was going around me. I was spending so much time everyday working outside in cars, that I almost didn’t have time at all to do school related work or things that I was responsible for. That’s exactly what I like the most of automotive mechanics, when I start to work on a car, you basically forget about everything that is going around you; you are in your own world. However, I had to learn this the

That really means a lot for me. Last year my grandmother passed away. It was not easy having to digest something that big, having to say goodbye to someone who had been around you for the most part of your life. When things like this happen, your life changes drastically, and your perspective of life is much different. Here’s when you start to question yourself if you should keep on going or not. As to be expected I fell into a somewhat deep depression, and things just didn’t look like they did before. Such event made a lot of things change, school, work, family, and the perspective on how things were supposed to be in life. However, there was a huge turning point that made things a bit better. My dad bought me a 1996 SN95 mustang v6. This was a huge thing for me because I’m a huge mustang fan. Having such an old car meant that, it needed some work; and that was basically the best part of it. Being able to work on a car, doing the things I like to do the most, was really helpful back at that time, to make me forget about all the crazy events that were