Efrain Hernandez: Personal Narrative Of My Life

Efrain hernandez

It all started off with two love birds meeting in high school and committing to each other for the rest of their lives at the age of 17. My parents moved to 29 Palms, California so that my dad can continue his education in the United States Marine Corps. During this time in California I was born, with the first ray of light hitting my skin I was determined to do anything and everything to make them happy and proud. Being born in a time in which my mom and dad were struggling they decided to move to Houston, Texas where most of my family was located. With my mom and dad working, having to struggle every day with work I would be dropped off at my grandma’s house which held all the love and fun deep within the decaying house.

At the age of four I started school with pre-k and although it is a very distant memory I remember having fun and preferring going to school rather than staying at my grandma’s house.

The school I had gone to for pre-k was the same school that I went to until the sixth grade, no coincidence this was the same school that my mom had worked at. Being in a very small school since I was four till the age of twelve with the same people to talk to every single year really hurt my ability to socialize with other people I didn’t know. I honestly was very nervous in moving schools, I knew I was going to be very anti-social and I was correct. Making almost no friends in middle school I was glad to move to somewhere else, because in my eyes Hamilton (my middle school) was hell. But little did I know later on being anti-social was going to have to

change.

After middle school I decided to go to a school that would test me and push me and mold me into something, this school was NHECHS. Once in NHECHS, after running into many arduous tasks I realized that it was going to be necessary to talk to fellow students if I wanted to pass. After getting to know almost everyone in the school, I was a much happier person who was ready for no matter what would be thrown at him. During my time at NHECHS, I had worked so hard that in freshman year I managed to get a couple classes at HCC. After four years of hard work at the college and high school I was done, I finally graduated being top five percent in my high school class and graduating from HCC with an associate’s degree. After HCC, I went the most challenging task of them all, going to the USMC.

In the USMC I continued my education and finally finished it all with a doctorate degree. After I got my degree and got the job I have desired since the sixth grade, I was making a lot of money but it just didn’t seem like enough. Things like my car or my house was not enough, I felt alone. One day while doing my job I saw a beautiful girl, I had gotten so used to have ever laid my eyes on, but one day I man up to it and I did it. Years passed and we became a family, and that leaves me to where I am at now in life.

After marrying my wife, and having a family I got everything I wanted in life. To this day , I thank god for everything that happened even the bad things because if it wasn’t there I would have learned or changed.