Personal Narrative: Blast Na's Represent

The year is 2012 and the blisters on the palms of my hands have become rock hard from years of manual labor. After a hard days work, I kick back and relax, and sit on the porch with my lips wrapped around the tip of a green Heineken bottle. I share laughs with my next-door neighbor, who also happens to be my best friend, while the speakers blast Nas 's "Represent." I 'm not really thinking of the future just yet, I 'm more indulged with the thoughts of females and the summer nights ahead of us, but very soon, on March 31st 2012, my life would change in ways I couldn’t begin to explain after an unfortunate, or maybe not so unfortunate, mishap. Such was this mishap, that after being brought back to life by a paramedic, I made a promise the following …show more content…
I was the first born to two strong, independent Mexican immigrants. I have two bright younger sisters who should aspire a career in boxing, as they can 't seem to stop hitting the books. My younger brother is as athletic as they come and strives to one day make it big on the soccer field. Me? I have other aspirations. Some of my close friends would describe me as motivated, lively, extraterrestrial and a lover of film. For the longest time, I dreamed of directing motion pictures (I was absorbed by the films of Paul Thomas Anderson and Stanley Kubrick), but throughout my teenage years my dream just seemed too unrealistic to follow. I graduated from Westminster High School in the Spring of 2009 and then commenced a three year partying spree until that aforementioned unfortunate spring night of …show more content…
I began writing scripts of my own and went on to submitting one of them to the Sundance Film Festival for their annual Screenwriter’s Program. I prayed that I would get the help necessary to help fund my idea and turn it into a film, but unfortunately my story got rejected. This screenplay that I worked on day and night, was a story fueled by personal experiences- I called it "Gods". It is a tale about a group of teenage friends and their journey into destruction through the use of drugs, violence and promiscuous sex. I wanted to make a piece of film that would hopefully reach a younger, misguided audience and open their eyes before it was too late. This same feeling of wanting to help was translated into working with special needs kids and Gen Ed in a turnaround school. Slowly but surely, I found a passion in writing and I knew that if my words couldn’t get to kids through film then it would reach them through teaching in a