Personal Narrative: A Career As An Army Child

In elementary kids are asked many times “What do you want to be when you grow up?” For some reason, it takes some longer than others to find out. During my childhood the things that interested me were teaching, fashion designing, dancing and being an entertainer. In my head, at the time, I believed that there was a way to do it all at the same time. As the years passed my life started to change. Everything was not going as it was planned in my head. Different things started happening that I had no control over, some good and unfortunately some bad.
Being an Army child there is always a chance that my father could have to go overseas for anything. In the 3rd grade, I remember my father being told that he would possibly have to go to Afghanistan for six months or longer. Later that month he was also told that his ankle needed to be operated on. After the operation, while my father was healing he talked to his comrades and was informed that he was no longer eligible for combat, due to the metal plate that was placed in his ankle. My mother and I were filled with mixed emotions, we were devastated because my father was acutely looking …show more content…
On my father’s side of the family I am the baby and when I was younger there was one cousin that I looked up to the most. He was the oldest of us all, the first grandchild to graduate high school, first graduation I attended, and more like a big brother to me. We had so many good memories together like how I always got in trouble for calling him my “favorite cousin," unfortunately the only one that sticks with me is his death. I will never forget the night my father ran into the house to get my mother to go check on him. He and his girlfriend had got into a really bad argument on the way home, and as the details are somewhat unknown, what we do know is that his car hit a telephone pole head on killing him on impact. It hits me personally because he was only in his twenty’s and the wreck was down the street from my