Personal Narrative: I Am A Survivor

In life we face many obstacles such as failures, setbacks, and challenges. Some people let their setbacks defeat them, but for me I’m a survivor. I never let anything hold me back, I always get back up and start all over again and that’s what survivors do. There was a time when I was in the 3rd grade when I realized how much I loved music; I started off writing poetry then that led into me starting to write rap songs. I used to always tell my friends about my songs , but all they ever did was laugh , some friends I had right ? . None of them had any faith in me, they always thought I was a joke, but still I always wrote my songs and kept it moving. At the time, my dad had my sisters and I in a music group called “Mighty Ladies “, but I didn’t …show more content…
I actually convinced myself and believed what others said about me, I stopped everything that I worked so hard on and was clueless as in to what I wanted to do with my life. Years after Years went by with me only seeing people around me succeed, but summer of 2016 changed my life forever, It was the summer before my 11th grade year when so much police brutality was going on with the killings of Korryn Gaines, & Alton Sterling, It was terrible, but something spoke to me to write about it, at first I hesitated, but eventually I started writing a full song about what I felt was wrong going in the world. When I was finished I was completely shocked that I wrote a song again and how good it sounded. When I started school at Cedar Grove High School, I had a teacher by the name of Mrs.Mashburn who had us always write raps or poems about our school work, which built my performance skills and also made me feel comfortable in front of people. I wrote my raps and always performed it in front of my class and they loved it, some of the students in the class also performed their songs and we all encouraged each other and was always positive. I loved it, but I had to move