Personal Narrative Essay: The Event That Changed My Life

📌Category: Experience, Life, Myself
📌Words: 787
📌Pages: 3
📌Published: 08 February 2022

If I had to choose an event that has completely altered my life, it wouldn't necessarily be one key event. It would be a series of events strung out over the past two years. I feel that too often I am getting held up by things in this world that no matter how hard you try to fix it, you have absolutely no control over the outcome. There is no need to worry about tomorrow when today is not even over. The key lesson that these events have taught me is to not worry about what you cannot control. 

Two years ago I had just gotten back from a field trip to some army museum. When I got in the car I was very surprised to see my mom driving because normally she is still at work. That is when she told me that my great-uncle had died. I have a pretty big family and we all do everything together, so we were all very sad to hear that he had passed. Shortly after, I found out that my mother may lose her job because one of her employees had stolen some medicine from the company. This employee was a part of our life group so I knew her, but more importantly she was super close to my mom. Finding out that this had happened broke her because not only had she lost a close friend, but she was scared she would no longer be able to save other people's lives. My mom has always been the brightest light to the world that I have ever known so when that changed it started to change me as well. Shortly thereafter, my cousins had just let a senior in high school move in with them because he was kicked out of his family. In the next year, he had grown to be more than just a friend; he was family. After knowing him for a year one day I found myself in the car with my mom heading out to our farm. On that car ride, she told me and my brother that Marquez's (the kid that moved in with our cousins) mom found him unconscious on the floor of the shower with no heartbeat. The EMTs got there and were able to resuscitate him and take him back to the hospital. There he was in a coma and put on a ventilator. I distinctly remember my mom saying in the car that she thought he was not going to make it. This was devastating to me because I and him had such a tight bond and when my mom said that I truly thought he was about to die. He ended up waking up and is now the first person in his family to go to college. Right after that, I found out that my great-aunt had died. To this day that was the worst day of my life. Her name was Thelma Music, but I always called her a Babe. When I was little, she was my Mom. My Mom had residency and was barely ever home and my dad was always working on houses and my brother was at school. So it was just me and the babe all day every day. She was my person and when I found out she had died, I was devastated. To this day that whole month was a blur because of how emotional things got. I miss her every day and I have never really been the same. Then my cousin's boyfriend got sick and was put in the hospital. There he was put in a coma, and then again my mom told us that she thought he was going to die. He was in a coma for eight days and woke up. He was starting his senior year of college and needed to have a colostomy bag, so a few more things happened and he ended up moving in with us. He still lives with us today. Last, but probably just, for now, my uncle ran away because he has a mixture of hypoglycemia and OCD. He would pretty much have a panic attack about his sweating and could not make any logical decisions. This was so hard for me because of how close I am to him and he is the last person you would ever have this problem with. 

Throughout the last two and a half years of my life, the number one takeaway has been to never try and change things you cannot control. In this short period of my life my entire viewpoint has changed. I used to go all-in on things that were impossible to change and I would end up hurting myself even more. Whereas now I believe that it is important to enjoy life because it is short and should not be taken for granted. In the Bible it says to not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. There is no reason to trouble yourself over something that is destined to happen.

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