Personal Narrative: Live Like You 'Re Dying'

When I flip through old photo albums in thirty years, I see the successful and happy life I have lived with my family, friends, neighbors, and classmates. I envision a life filled with hard work, achieved goals, strong relationships, and a deep faith with God. I would consider my life to be successful if I continued to be the hard working student I am as I continue to further my education in a Five-Year Fast Track Physician Assistant program. If I made my dreams reality; one of my dreams being to never regret day I lived and to take every day as a new opportunity to better myself. If I formed strong bonds and relationships with my colleagues, professors, friends, and family. If I developed a deeper connection with God, as I know that he will help to live a successful life. And, most importantly, if I live as a person who I am proud of, a person who puts the needs of others first, because after all, we are on this Earth to serve not only ourselves, but others as well.

His actions were not skydiving or visiting a tropical island, instead, they were becoming the husband and father he has always wanted to be for his family and a friend he has never been. This song portrays exactly how i want to live my own life; a life that I would look at as being successful. Not only do I see a successful life as having a successful job, big dreams, and huge accomplishments (like making Dean’s list during college), but becoming the person that my family, friends, and myself