Personal Narrative Analysis

Faith is something that I learned from my own life lessons. Faith to me means many things. The first thing that comes to mind when I remind myself of faith when i’m feeling down, is going to church. I learned to have faith in God by how my parents taught me, but the real lesson I have is from teaching myself. I learned from my mistakes. God has brought me down sometimes in order to bring me up. There are many times in life that I thought I should give up and give in. I reached out the most when my parents got divorced. I was fairly young, but old enough to understand. Compared to most people, my parents were really happy together. I never heard them fight late in my room or heard them complain. I never experienced that, which made it that much harder to understand why they didn’t love each other anymore. For the first couple years they were divorced, I had a rough time trusting my mom and my dad. Faith is something I leaned against, but it didn’t make things easier. At first I pretended to focus on the benefits of having divorced parents, but what I was really thinking was that I would …show more content…
My mom’s boyfriend’s dog, Jackson. Helped me get through it also. Jackson was a chocolate lab, and he was a very calm and a relaxed dog. He was fairly old for his breed and he begun to get sicker and sicker. Jackson was my best friend and because I was having a rough time at home I didn’t reach out to any of my friends at school. Jackson had arthritis in his hips and it made it hard for him to walk. I would have to stand with him and help him climb the stairs. I had to catch him a numerous of times because he would fall. Jackson was not getting any better and one day when we took him to the vet, his vet informed us that he is suffering and the pills were not working. My mom let me down easy the next day that we would have to put him down. I remember that I was devastated and that all she told me was,”It’s ok to