Personal Narrative: My Graduating High School

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I’ve never felt so accomplished in my life before, I have been waiting since every young for this day to come. I always hated school because of its long hours behind a desk listening to a teacher lecture about a subject. It was the same routine for thirteen years, starting with kindergarten had to wake up early to get to school, after school then go home to do homework, and sleep. With being so eager to graduate, I never took a second to pause and just take it in to appreciate my life. Graduating high school was one of my most important goals in life, unfortunately it went by to quick and wished there was a way to go back on this special day to relive it. At the end of the day I couldn’t believe I just graduated and wouldn’t have to go back …show more content…
My hair is really long at this point down to my lower back, but the reason I decided to grow it out was for this special occasions. I straiten my hair flat last night and curled the end so my cap would set perfectly on top. I stayed up last night until around three in the morning doing my hair, which luckily I knew it would take that long, which is why I decided to do it then and touch it up in the morning. I wasn’t going to be able to sleep all night so staying busy was better than twisting and turning in bed not resting. After I got that done I went to see my mother to see if she could help me calm my nerves. My mother has always supported me and made me feel more courageous in situations when am doing something new. She looked me square in the eye and said I looked beautiful. I told her I didn’t need to hear that, but on how to calm my nerves down that were eating me up inside. She told me that it was super easy just walking up the stage and getting my diploma, and that she was going to be there the whole time. Her advice she was giving me didn’t help me at all, until she notice I didn’t have any makeup on. I was so done, and stated that that’s how nervous I was, I would have forgotten to do my makeup if it wasn’t for her. I quickly went back to my room and did my makeup before it was too late. I didn’t eat anything because knew that it wouldn’t stay in my

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