Personal Narrative-Change Is Not Always Bad

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Change Is Not Always Bad

As I sat in my room and reminisced over the change that happened in my life, a smile crossed my face. My smile was not because I like change, but it represented me overcoming the fear that gripped me every time change occurred. Many times in life I began to love or hate certain factors that life handed me depending on how I went through my first experience of that situations. Change is one of those factors I hated because when I first encountered it, I was young and just did not understand why we had to move.

Nausea flooded my body as quickly as my dad opened his mouth. " We are moving in two days to Fort Myers to start a church". These were words I never thought would come out of my dad 's mouth. As my mom and dad tried buttering up the dry look I had on my face by answering all the possible questions they thought a nine year old would have flying through her mind, it only made things worse. Everything they said just reminded me of all the stuff I had to leave behind. The things they were saying could not possibly be true. I knew it was impossible for me to find a better neighborhood to stay in than where we already were.

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How could they find a better school than the one I was already going to? I knew I would not be able to find new friends or at
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I was expecting for my family not to like it here and having to deal with complaining constantly, but it was the opposite of what I was expecting. After I officially moved to Ft.Myers with my family everything became so perfect that it is kind of unbelievable. My wife loved her new job and my kids would come home telling me about all the new friends they made everyday. My older sons did not get into anymore trouble as far as I know about. Last but not least, the church is growing right before my eyes. Now everything is going so good it really shows me that this was what my family

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