Personal Narrative Essay

Arriving at our destination was a large relief for me. I was finially free from the confines the truck. The sight before my best friend, Braden and I was a simple two story builsing where we would be spending the weekend. I love places like that nice and secluded in the middle of nature with trees sprawling the landscape without the eyesoars of tall buildings and the sound of dreadful traffic to disrupt the serene environment. We were with Lew, the youth minister and other members of the church on

One day, I'd grown tired of running the hamster wheel of a life I'd created, and I suddenly realized that I was running nowhere quick. The longer I would run, the further I would become from myself, and yet, I kept running, due to the lack of direction. In other words, I’d devoted myself to living a life according to others, rather than serving the greatness that automatically comes from inside our true-selves. Rather than moving according to my true-self, I adapted and conformed to others, which

I attach myself to words, certain words and literature seem to draw out my inner optimist. I spend my free time watching biographies and documentaries or reciting poetry of Langston Hughes and although I tip toe over a plethora of quotable sentences and words, I find myself stuck on one in particular. The word that leaves footprints throughout the sands of my mind is “Triumphant” /trīˈəmfənt/ the dictionary defines the word as “feeling or expressing jubilation after having won a victory or mastered

touch on a few of my personal favorites, one of which being the "Aero Snap" feature which allows you to easily resize and reposition the size of the screen you are using. This allows you to view each

A funny thing happened when I got dumped, no one felt sorry for me. Everyone knows that misery loves company, but that’s only when something truly bad happens equally to both people. Why is it that the most miserable people I know always profess that they are happy, buy look as if all the windows on the upper floors are locked and the roof should be off limits to them? If I hear another person use the negative for a positive as an example, I may actually believe upping their medication might not

I would have never thought my lonely, dark, cold, and miserable days would become heart warming, sunny,and enjoyable. it all started when I learnded what "society" thought being happy was. I became infuncataed with the idea of loving someone and being loved, but never thought about the repercussions. I only thought about being loved and motivated by someone else that was deeply in love with the idea of me. No-one seemed interested with that Idea and once I realized that I saw the world as a dull

We are all faced with challenges, setbacks, and failures almost everyday. They all affect us differently, but how you handle them is what matters most. Almost every challenge or setback I have been faced with has taught me a lesson or showed me something that I did not know before. Sometimes those challenges you are faced with happen for the better. The saying ¨everything happens for a reason¨ has proved to be true. One of the most recent challenges I have been faced with was moving out and doing

This article has nothing to do with the musical skill or tap dancing. It has everything to do with adapting to change. Change is always a constant. But “change” now days is happening at a furious rate. Nothing seems to be changing faster today, then computer technology. I retired from the workforce a decade ago, after a lengthy accident rehabilitation. Prior to the accident, I was a contractual, basic computer skills instructor. My students were from a low income area in a major city. It was an

This is showing a connection of being so happy for a item, for me that item is a horse, can be switched to never wanting to be happy for another horse for any amounts of time. I mean that for me if I ever get excited, in the end I realize I should not be excited. This does not mean that good things go wrong for everyone, but that’s how my luck has ran its course to this point. Chesa took me under my wing when I wanted to learn more about horses, and now I am showing horses in the summer. Although

Since 1936, when Konrad Zuse invented the first freely programmable computer, technology has skyrocketed and allowed us to accomplish feats those raised in the 1800’s and early 1900’s never dreamed of as possible. Technology has sent men and women to space, cured diseases, won wars, and launched satellites soaring past Saturn. Because of this soar in technology, this year we will be able to see the first close-up pictures of Pluto and the Kepler Belt, an area once thought not to exist. Computers