Personal Narrative: What Is My Life Like So Far?

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What is my life like so far? If you asked me that earlier, I would probably awkwardly have told you that my life was good and that nothing big or important happened. Well after some serious thinking I have come to the conclusion that my life and the events that occurred shaped me to who I am today. My life so far has been a roller coaster of events since the day I was born.
Since the day I was born I have had many events that made the human I am today. To start off, like any other baby, there is a due date of when the baby should be born. Well in my parents and my case it did not happen that way. I was so eager to be apart of this world that I decided to come out eleven weeks early, weighing one pound thirteen ounces. For most cases, when you hear of a baby being born eleven weeks early you usually assume the worse and say that the baby will not make it. I was lucky enough to be one of the few babies that are born extremely premature and survive. This alone shapes me in more ways than one. I appreciate everyday, have no regrets in life, and live life to the fullest, because I know that I could have had a lot harder life.
In life you are supposed to learn certain lessons that condition you into being a well rounded human being. The lessons that I have learned most, would be not to take
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In my experience, like most people we tend to assume things of others. Growing up I always assumed every person I have ever met had the same beliefs as myself. Over time I quickly learned that some of the most important people in my life did not share the same beliefs as me, whether it was politics or equality some of the people that I spoke to every day did not agree with me on the topics that I held dear. But I did dwell on it, I accepted their beliefs and moved on. Because of these beliefs I am able to not judge a book by it’s cover and see that every person has qualities that makes them important to

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