Personal Narrative Analysis

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Events have the capability to shape a person as a whole, depending on the level of the importance or the impacts after the event. Being this age, it is such a strange yet not the best time in life, but it is also the transition from childhood to adulthood. The event I endured shaped me as a person, it caused so much mental and emotional destruction. But, it also was a transition for the good.
The hardest thing that i have had to deal with and the hardest thing i have witnessed would be the death of my mother. She was such a beautiful human being. She created peace at heart for me. Overall, that women meant the world to me. What happened was a heart attack. With heart attacks i believe that it is a slow killer, things happen fast, but people
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There was this look, this specific tone in their voice, everyone was all of a sudden so interested and so sympathetic towards me. It definitely all felt different. Losing my mother probably took a major toll on me, the biggest one i have ever experienced. Trying to get back into thinking about primarily school was my biggest challenge, sometimes still is. I think that it was also an eye opener. Nevertheless, this was one of the reasons my two sides of the family, argued and can no longer get along. Most people would expect death to bring families closer. The harsh silence I would receive if i would conversate with one side of my family, more often than the other. I did not think i could talk to anyone about what was happening or how i was feeling, my stomach always felt empty and i would feel so alone. It felt as if my world came crashing down on me. I had to grow up way more faster due to the incident and how those around me would treat me. Since then, I have pulled it together and have learned new ways to deal with what has happened. For example, it does not hurt to talk to someone new about the situation since they don’t know about your person life and can not have a biased opinion towards what is happening. It does get hard to deal with sometimes, iit will always have an impact on you and you cant just forget it and move past it. I’ve heard that some people still have breakdowns when they

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