Personal Narrative: How People Influenced My Life

Throughout our lives we are influenced by many people. These people teach us many things in many different ways and have made us who we are today. Some of them teach us more than the others. Then, there are those who go above and beyond others and teach us things no one else could. These people are often thought of as god-teachers because they have taught us much more than any other. Through making me try new things, though I did not want to, and using his life experiences as a guide, my dad has completely changed my outlook on parents.
One example of my dad making me do things I did not want to do is to play baseball. When I was young, around the age of 4 or 5, my dad had approached me and asked if I was interested in the idea of playing baseball. He had told me he enjoyed it as a kid and that I would too. I was appalled with the idea and had told him “no”. Later that day he informed me that he signed me up and that if I did not like it I had the option to

He did this notably when I was in 5th grade. There was a sign-up sheet that was handed out where you could sign-up to get a math worksheet every Monday and it was due that Friday. It was not part of the regular curriculum. I had told my parents about it and they said I should do it to get better at math. My dad was especially opinionated because he had always excelled academically and wanted the same for me. But I was opposed to the idea of doing extra work and threw out the sign-up sheet. At some point my dad had sign me up for it without me knowing. I was very angry at this, but tried to do the work nonetheless. The work was harder than what I was used to but my dad had helped me through it and taught me how to do the work. Over the course of that year I had gotten a lot better at math and have excelled ever since. The skills he taught me that year I still use today and have never thought I would have ever been forced to learn such a valuable