The Takeover-Personal Narrative

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As soon as i get inside the house, my son asks me can he go over to his friends' house. I didn't think it would be a problem so i said yes.

I told him before you leave, help put these groceries away Then I asked him where his dad was. I needed to find out if he was going to his motorcycle event tonight so i could decide what we were gonna do for dinner.

I told him he could stay out for a little while but he was out the door before I finished my sentence.

As I crawled on to a chair and kicked off my shoes then put my feet on the cluttered coffee table, I thought to myself I officialy HATE my job. It had already been a horrible day at work and to make things even worse , something else went wrong with my car.

I looked at my watch and realized
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The title said "You can have whatever you want, if you concentrate on it."I laughed at this statement for a good five minutes. If it was that easy I would have had my Range Rover by now. Instead of driving that old Volkswaggen in my driveway.I grumbled, and continued looking at the article and gasped at the mention of a car in it. I backtracked and decided I was going to reread the whole article all over. The article said that I try the experiment late in the evening when it was quiet and when I would not be interrupted you won't be interrupted. I would need a picture of what I what wanted concentrate on along with a candle and a dark room. It said to stand the image up near the candle. Then while looking at the picture,like …show more content…
The feeling in my stomach got even worse. He told me that my husband had had a heart attack at a friend's house and that it was over before the ambulance arrived. I was in denial intil tbe man opened his briefcase and handed me my husband's wallet and ring. I immediately lost it when I took them out the man's hands. As soon as david walked out the door, my whole life had changed. not only for me but for my son. I knee nothing would ever be the same for either of us. I was in a daze the week of the funeral, and afterwards, i began rearranging my life and my son's life now that I was a single

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