Personal Narrative: How College Changed My Life

Way before I even thought college was a word, it was always implanted of what kind of career I wanted to study. I will probably change my mind, like I’ll change my under wear because I am so indecisive. Over time, As I was becoming older and closer to graduation, I eventually became more realist of what I wanted to be after high school and how to start this dream to become a reality. The word college was now mentioned every day, and it became a daily vocabulary around me. It became part of my understanding that this was my start of my future and what I had to do to leave a mark on this world. To give you a more in depth about how this all started. My beginning of high school; was a complete disaster and I didn’t know exactly what I wanted but to have fun. I knew nothing of how my future was going to be and how I was going to land in my …show more content…
It was probably the most tragic thing I have experienced in my whole life… Well I thought. That really pathetic break up made me care about school less and I really thought I had no hope. I became depressed and did horrible in school. I began to hang out with people who partied all night. Partying started costing me money, so I got a job, and my father gave me my first car around the same time. This is when everything in life hit me like a train. I got my first paycheck, and it was only two hundred dollars. It hit me so hard because I had to pay my car insurance, which was about one hundred and sixty dollars. I was basically left with gas money. I thought to myself, what is the point of working for car insurance. This was my biggest change in my life, I didn’t want to work and my time to be worth minimum pay. I started thinking about my dreams as when I was young, always changing careers from a firefighter, to a super hero, and I looked at myself now I was a hopeless teenager who had nothing but a really hard heartbreak and no