Personal Narrative: Lessons Learned About Life

“In three words I can summarize everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” I remember these words repeating in my head as my mom told me the devastating news about my uncle. When you are living your life, you began to feel as if nothing can come between you and your happiness. You forget that this journey does come to an end like a roller coaster does after its crazy, adrenaline-filled ride and it can happen to anyone you know. Events in life can hit you at any given moment, and sometimes you have to take the memory by the hand and carry it with you because it may be the reason you are who you have become today. We had planned a trip to San Antonio, Texas with my mother’s sister and her husband, in the week before New Years. My parents felt the need to treat them to a little trip before they …show more content…
The phone call part of the situation was not the unusual thing, but the abrupt and suddenness felt very uneasy. It felt like the feeling Gatsby may have gotten when he let Daisy drive his car before she hit Myrtle. The feeling of anxiousness you get when you know something is about to go wrong. As my father answered the phone, the bright, surprised smile on his aging face slowly turned the opposite direction. Everyone in the room could sense the heartbreaking news slowly swallowing his happiness away. He continued to listen to what my aunt was saying through the phone and I could could hear the feeling of despair echoing through her voice. After a few minutes my dad turned the phone off and quietly called the adults into the other hotel room. He began explaining to them what had just occurred back in Pakistan and I heard many gasps throughout the conversation. My mother came out of the room with tears filling her eyes like child when they cannot find their mother in the grocery store. “Your uncle passed away this morning.” That one sentence just stopped my entire