Personal Narrative Essay: Going To The Sea

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Every day, you gain new experiences and grow into a better person. People also learn about themselves and about their feeling toward things, and an intense emotion will make them remember a forgetting memory and meet a hidden person inside of them. People love the sea for the water or the feeling of the sun on their skin. When I see the sea, I look at the eye of my fear that puts a wall between me and my water loving kid inside of me.
After a long school year and my father came to Syria, my family wanted to go for a vacation. It took us hours to decide because of the sea, hot spa, and an Amusement Park close to where we lived. The problem was that my siblings wanted to go to an Amusement Park and my parents wanted to go to the sea. My father convinced us going to the sea because he said he would take us on a boat ride. We were happy and went shopping for swim things, but our parent didn’t tell us the day. We woke up every morning to see if we were going, my parents saw the sadness on our face. One morning, my
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If you go to the sea, you will understand the feeling that your eyes would fill with tears at the slightest hint of anything touching your body or the feeling that may bring a sense of being alive as never before. I wanted to see the underwater and see what my brothers were talking about.
When I put my head in the water I could not see, so I put my head in the water further and further. I did not know that I was moving apart from them. While my head was underwater, I lost the floats and want upside down in the water. I learned that when you are in a bad situation, you will see sides of your nature that you had not expressed until then. Unexpected new emotions can be upsetting to you, making you feel as though you come in contact with buried memories. I remember that I was in the water without my floats, thinking about all my

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