Personal Narrative Essay: Breaking My Limit

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Yerin Hyun Ms Flavia Kamel Literature 9A Oct.12,2017 Breaking my Limit During the long summer vacation, I went back to Korea. It was the best time, and I enjoyed every moment there. However, if I need to pick one event that affected me the most, I’d choose ‘Climbing’ without any hesitation. It was one of the exercising programs we had in our Substitute School. We all went to a climbing lesson and we found ourselves surrounded by a wall. The walls weren’t ordinary walls. There were holders stuck on the wall. The climbing was totally new for me. It was something that I’ve never tried before. So it gave me a fresh feeling. Before we actually start, the teacher taught us guidelines …show more content…

I could also test myself to see what was my perseverance and patience limit. Once in awhile, I got seductive thought like; just to give it up right away and go down or the thought of that “This is enough” kept occurring to me, and I yelled to my teacher like “Oh no, seriously, I think I can’t go any further.” but the teacher didn’t let me go down easily, instead he said “You can do this! Just keep trying.”. Despite of all of these temptation I just kept myself climbing although sometimes my legs and fingers got numb. I climbed and climbed until my legs and fingers exhausted all the energy I had left. As I climb I could smell the iron smell from my hands and feel my legs trembling and energy draining out of my body. There was only one holder left to complete the climbing right before my hands but I couldn’t catch it to the last. Besides, I had no more strength to climb and catch it. I tried to reach the top over many times but my feet kept slipping. At last, I realized that I’ll not able to finish it this time. So after few minutes of trying I came down with no regrets because I tried my best and felt my limit of strength. I had perseverance but was lack of strength; but it’s also true that it was a real bummer. But what could I do then? I had no other choice but to wait for another chance to

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