Personal Narrative Essay On 'The Forgiven Lost'

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The Forgiven Lost

In more than one way humans are the same. This time the similarity is love. Everyone experiences that one love that was special, but also in the same moment to hard to bare to stay in love with that special someone. My special someone was my Freshman year, in highschool girlfriend Savanna Duffey.Ending my first female relationship with a her taught me many lessons, and caused me to make many mistakes. Savanna was the first experience with gay love, and my last. Meeting Savanna in the summer of 2014 she was so beautiful. Standing tall and skinny with short, tomboy, brownish-blond hair, she was a sight for sore eyes. Looking into her eyes was as dreamy as looking through a telescope. Her eye color stood out as a galaxy
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That night when we left in the middle of the game to go to the park with some other kids to smoke, she ditched me at the par to hang out with another girl and guy, and began making out with the both of them at the park when we arrived and got settled. The next day was a Saturday so I called her and broke things off because I knew she wasn't right for me, I knew in my heart and mind that I was better than the person she had made me become. Leaving Savanna was a positive decision because I’m with someone that helped me quit smoking (four years clean) and who helped me become an improved me and loves me for me.
Soon after Savanna and I’s relationship ended, a began a relationship with a man, the relationship is still flourishing with our three year anniversary coming quick. An experience that I learned most from Savanna was she helped me understand the qualities needed in a relationship and what it takes to maintain a healthy and happy relationship.My relationship with Savanna will always remind me to never change for someone who would never change for you. And to never be in a one sided relationship, to overcome insecurities of yourself to be a better person for you other than for

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