Who Am I: A Personal Narrative Of My Life

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If there is one thing that most people notice about me it’s that I am quiet. I often go unnoticed and people think that I am just anti-social. The truth is I have always been shy and nervous around people. I have always kept to myself and that maybe because in my life I have never really been able to trust people or be around people long enough to form really good relationships.
I grew up in a small town in Texas where the air was dry and it was always hot. Not a lot of people really came to hang out so it was me and my brother a lot. We hung out by the pond that was near our house. My brother was my first friend and he and I spent most of our time together. My brother was always there for me when I needed someone to talk to growing up.
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I was a very shy and nervous kid growing up. I would still go to my friends’ houses after school and hangout. I remember just when I started to feel comfortable my family moved again. This time to the much bigger city of San Antonio. It was a big city very busy traffic made it hard to go anywhere fun but my mom would somehow manage to slip a few fun trips in our day. Our new school was huge it had a total of 1200 kids and like I said before I was a shy kid so I never had too many friends. I had met this kid in my class that liked a lot of what I liked to do he also shared the same humor as me which was rare for me to find in a friend cause I had sort of a weird sense of humor and I was glad to know that someone was a weirdo like me. We’d go on to do all sorts of crazy things together ding dong ditch, run away from the owners crazy dog, go out late at night a pop fireworks, and sometimes my big brother would join us in our neighborhood shenanigans. We saw each other as brothers until one day I had to move but not with my brother, sister, and mother just …show more content…
I met my step dad, who was in the Air Force. I thought we’d be living in another small town but little did I know I’d be living on an air force base where I’d get to see all kinds of planes land and take off. The base didn’t just have airmen ether it was mixed with army, marines and sometimes navy I got to meet a bunch of new people and learn about a ton of new and exciting things. I was living on base for five years when my mom told me about Job Corps and how it could help me get started in life and help me go to college so I decided to give it a shot and here I am now almost complete with job corps and ready to start my own journey excited for what my future has in store for

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