Personal Narrative Essay-The Smoking Gun

The Smoking Gun Ever since I was a young child, cricket was my passion and something I enjoyed experiencing every single day. Whether we were watching the game or playing it, cricket consumed my life and I began to play the sport every single day. At the center of my experience was my grandfather, who was active, fun, and always willing to play with his grandchildren. However, like the rest of us, he was human, and part of being human is that everything must come to an end. I still remember those beautiful summer days playing in my old house, running around the long, wide hallways without a care in the world. I would love sprinting around and chasing my grandfather, jumping on his back, and playing without a care in the world. I would be …show more content…
He smoked. He was a chronic smoker who couldn’t stop using cigarettes, no matter how hard he tried. The addiction of tobacco was too much and he could not pull away from the terrible, devastating draw of the dangerous drug. The dangerous effects of tobacco usage and numerous and powerful. Diseases ranging from severe lung disease to blood vessel damage to cancer can devastate a person, and in my case, a family. Day after day passed as one of the strongest people I knew deteriorated day by day with the tobacco smoke coursing through his veins and the pain was like looking through a window pane and seeing something outside, but being stuck inside and knowing that it's not alright, but you can't break into his mind and stop the carbon monoxide from destroying him from inside. The addiction was too much to bear and the feeling that it's beyond repair and prevailing despair was too much to …show more content…
I learned what it meant to be a good person through the message he lived with every day of how he would treat those around him. And learning how one decision can pull a great person into ruin taught me why helping people was important, for I knew that sometimes, a person may be stuck in a place they don’t want to be in, and seeing that happen to someone in my life, I now know that I want to help people get out of their dark place. Helping people became something at the center of everything that I want to do and I will never forget the impact that my grandfather had on my