Personal Narrative: My Life As A Writer

Everyone has to write at some point. Whether it’s writing a paper or assignment for class, creating an email, making a grocery list, even when everyone texts their best friends. And there is a certain sense of peace that comes over some when they write. I believe that the more you write each day, the more peaceful and experienced you become. This point may not come natural at first, but with time, it’ll become something as natural as breathing, my life is an example.

Growing up, I never knew how to act. It wasn’t hard to tell that I was different from most kids my age. For example; whenever we would have nap-time, I would never want to sit down, I would want to run around or do something different with my time. Because I felt that sleeping would waste the time to have fun. Though, I also felt left out when it came to emotions and how to have self-control. I would hit people to have fun, and I would be as loud as possible to have attention. When being loud turned into hurting people with my words without realizing it, that was when I started to back away from others.

I didn’t know how to communicate with others very well after that, there wasn’t a good way I could state my opinion to anyone without feeling like I hurt them.

Until I started writing in middle school. My friend Rachael had this passion for writing that rubbed off. At first, I didn’t think I was any good, until my friends from school and my teachers told me that what I had was good. From then on, I wrote short stories based off of different stories that already existed. And I didn’t just sit at a computer whenever it was convenient. I wrote during class, I wrote when I was supposed to be doing homework, I wrote at all hours of the day. And then there were rough times that I went into; my step-mother got cancer and was getting a divorce with my dad, and then not long after, my track coach died in a car accident. That was when I started to journal each

day.
I would honestly write, because there was no one that could judge me based on what I wrote. And ever since then, I’ve created poems and short stories in my free time. All of the stress and anxiety of each situation seems to just drip from me onto the page as I write. Writing has become as natural as breathing to me now.
Every event should be recorded by everyone to make their own history, because I believe that the more you write each day, the more peaceful and experienced you become. So that one day, you can write your own story and influence others to be better than yourself. This I believe.