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It was extraordinary, indescribable, breathtaking. I looked out of the window next to me, and before my eyes was the view of a clear, blue sky, covered in sheets of snowy, white clouds. Slowly we began descending through them, revealing the expanse of blue water, stretching in every direction of the horizon. In the far right I could see a glimpse of main land, but not just any land, India. It was there and then, that I knew my life would be changed forever.
As I grew older, I became more mature and sophisticated. I became more knowledgeable, formed my own opinions and political views, and gained new insight into my life. I became more sociable and saw people and things in a new light. I also lose my naivety and saw who my dad truly was for the first time and that saddened me.
One thing that really bothers me is how much I changed. I used to play games all day, not focus on school, wouldn't get in serious trouble, and was very innocent compared to my present day self. There are cons and pros of my past self compared to how I am currently. I am more happy of how I am now then I am before. As time changes, so do I and I can not stop that. What’s done has already been done and can’t be changed so you always have to look towards the future and never the past. The past will not definite who you are today unless you let it. I would have never expect that I would be transferred to a continuation high school in my freshman year. It is a bad thing to many people, but I am thankful that I am sent to it because I will learn
It seems unbelievable my oldest is a few days off being a decade old. I know every parent wonders “where has the time gone?” a multitude of times during their children’s childhoods, but as I realize my son is over halfway to 'adulthood' it seems like the time has flown by.
I remember thinking to myself, I really need to get up there and explore the mountain. Sadly, due to a heavy workload, I wouldn't be able to get to the mountain until the following Summer. When that day finally arrived we packed up the kids and headed for the mountain. The sky was clear and a deep blue; like something from a National Geographic Documentary I watched as a kid. Once we arrived at the Nisqually entrance I saw a small log house in the middle of the road and my heart began to beat a little faster with each minute we waited in line to pay our entrance fee.
Some people, some great people deserve to live forever, or at least die in a worthy or in a fulfilling way. I just got the short end of the bargain, I just got one of the worst things on this earth, cancer. Anyone can get the disease, but the way I see it, it seems unfair and unruly that pure souls could end up with a painful and undeserving demise. Unfortunately, I was one of those pure souls.
After we got in that bus the views only got better than the last. In our first stop we stayed in a field next to a huge lake where we camped out, the night was freezing cold but the calmness of the water and the infinity of the stars in front of me took my mind off of that. A day or two later we arrived at the capital where we rode a cable car to the highest point of the mountains
I look into the cloudless, baby blue sky and see the perfection of life; in the distance, rumbling blue waves crashing into each other with such force as that of two sumo wrestlers pounding each other. The smell of the crisp wavy water gives me chills the second I hit the bridge on the way to the beach. Driving to the beach isnt the best feeling but once you past the first part of the bridge, the smell of blue salty water & the dry sand hits your nose. I smell the somewhat salty raw fish in the air. The smell of fresh grilled hamburgers, hotdogs, chicken even corn was in the air.
It was a winter morning. The mountains were covered with white snow and they looked beautiful. Thirty minutes had passed and still no announcement was made. The stream of sun rays filtered through the curtains, showering my room in its brilliance. I had butterflies in my stomach.
The first impression i received after stepping my feet on to the American land was of heaven in disguise. The climate, the atmosphere, the surroundings, the lush greenery -evrything had a particular and a unique aura. Even though the people i had to live with then, were not really how i'd have wanted them to be, i could still feel my heart pacing with joy and glee.
I looked out the little oval window down 45,000 feet to where I just was. Occasionally the plane would hit turbulence making it feel like I was on a paper airplane, about to fall apart at any moment. The feeling of a million butterflies crept up in my stomach when we landed in Alabama where I would be for five days. Walking out of the airport into a warm bath of sunshine felt amazing after being disconnected from nature and weather for god knows how long. My grandma, mom, and I patiently waited for the “Mango Tango Jeep” ,the name my grandma gave to my aunts car, happy to be up and able to move after being crammed in like sardines.
Although I am only sixteen years old and in the eleventh grade of high school, many things have influenced me and caused me to be the person that I am today. I hope that these things will continue to help me be a better person and influence me as my life continues. Some of the things that have influenced me have been church, my family, my friends, and school.
As I stared at the horizon, it seemed as if the sun had risen in the west. My life felt like a question mark. Everything was a blur to me. The soft and moist grass felt like a bed waiting for me to jump into. As I carried the canoe through the deep woods, I felt nothing.
There have been tons of things that I have learned and been taught in my life, by a number of people such as family, teachers, or even friends on occasion. The things they taught me vary from math and other related subjects to just some truly simple yet meaningful life lessons. However, there is nothing quite as unique, quite as special as a person teaching themselves a life lesson. It really is an amazing accomplishment for a person to teach themselves something. It is not quite as simple as another person teaching them something because it is not just the transferring of information from one person to another. The person instead has to start from scratch and process the information they have in their mind in order to come up with a new thought
I never really thought about where my life was going. I always believed life took me where I wanted to go, I never thought that I was the one who took myself were I wanted to go. Once I entered high school I changed the way I thought. This is why I chose to go to college. I believe that college will give me the keys to unlock the doors of life. This way I can choose for myself where I go instead of someone choosing for me.
The flight to London felt like it took forever, we were all so tired and just wanted to take a shower and go to bed, but we had to get off that plane and get on another going to Scotland. When we finally landed in Scotland, I couldn’t believe I was actually in a foreign country, I was so excited. The first thing I did when we landed in Scotland was to look through the window, of course what I saw were other airplanes and men running around getting luggage and showing planes to the terminal. After we got all of our luggage and the rental car, we walked outside, as I looked around, I could see so much green in the distance; so many different colors of green. I had never seen so much beauty in one place.