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Narrative Essay - The Story of My Life

12 Pages 3005 Words February 2018

I enjoyed reading this book. Many times, while I was reading, I couldn’t help but think of some of my past life and what I have been through, and how it hasn’t always been sunshine and butterflies. I do believe there is a reason for every living being on this earth, and there is a job for everyone. Some have traumatic childhoods while others have things handed to them in life.
When I was growing up, I had a nice childhood; violence was never an issue with my family, other than the few times my sister and I got spanked when we were younger for talking back or not listening. I was raised in a middle-class home in The Woodlands. My mom and dad did everything to ensure my sister and I were prepared as young adults going into the real world. There were some bumps in the road, like when my parents got divorced. I think it hurt my sister a little more than it did me. I was 17 years old, and she was 13. She still has some resentment against both mom and dad for leaving each other and having her split her time with one another.
Life seemed like it went backward for me. I guess there is no right or wrong way to do this thing called life. I was very well behaved until I was around 13 or so, then my parents knew there was going to be tons of problems arising in the years forward. I was sent to a “therapeutic boarding school” other known as a treatment center. I was 15 being sent there and stayed and lived in Alabama for two years then came back for my senior year at The Woodlands. While I was there, I learned how to give respect, not mentally hurt others and how to better myself. I was a very behaved teenager, which I still cannot completely understand as I had a very wonderful childhood with great role models to look up to. When my best friend passed away when we were 15, my heart had shattered into a million pieces, I did not know how to cope with the loss of someone so close to me, so I rebelled. I thought the whole world was against...

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