Personal Narrative: An Individual's Life

In our whole life span, we come across thousands of people in our lives, whether it be through just observing faces on the street, having occasional conversations with others, or forming a special one on one bond. I, for one, am a big believer that an individual 's life should be expressed through being a tool to inspire, to influence, and to create change for a better world. As cliche as this may sound, just going on in our lives and living can be easy, but fully living and using your life to impact others is a portion of what makes you bold and remembered. Merrill Joan Gerber is one of the very few people that comes to mind when I think of someone who entirely encapsulates this persona. We are saddened by the fact that we lost such a wonderful individual at the age of seventy-seven on the date twenty-eight of September twenty-fifteen, due to Coronary Artery Disease. Before getting into the bulk of her …show more content…
Some people may think it 's strange that I could feel an odd connection with someone I haven 't even met just through words formulated into novels, but I find it as God 's way of saying you 're not alone. I decided that I need to meet the person whose works has influenced my life in ways I can 't explain. I was fortunate enough to find out that she is a fiction writing teacher at California Institute of Technology and she was eager to meet up, and since then, our friendship has grown, as I explained to her how much impact her talent has had on me alone. I not only learned that there will be better days, but I also gained a new friend who helped guide me with the next three years of my life. I wish that I could have been able to say Merrill was a part of my life for far more years than that, but the world has its ways and we are all lucky to have known