Personal Narrative Essay About Moving

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Nobody really likes to move. At least, I know I don’t. We were living in Aiken , South Carolina and I was in the fourth grade. We moved into our house in aiken when I was about four years old. I had lots of friends that I had been around my entire life and had lived my whole life in that house and I did not want to leave my friends and family that were all down here.

My dad is a nuclear engineer and they had him to traveling around the united states for his job. Since he was away from home my mom told me we might move up there to be with him. In the beginning, it was just a crazy idea to me and I thought that we weren’t going to move. As time went on, this idea became a harsh reality. My dad had found him a home in Massachusetts where his
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The hardest part about moving was going to be leaving all of my friends. Every weekend I would I would go outside and find all of my friends play basketball or football so I would go and play with them. WE use to have a lot of fun but the day had came where I had to tell them all that I was leaving.When the day came, we loaded our final things into our truck and I prepaired for the longest ride of my life.. After that, we left our old lives behind to start new ones in …show more content…
Even though I started to like the new enviroment and I had made new friends. Now I realize it was one of the best things that has happened to me. I was scared of change. I had grown up in the same surroundings and with the same people. I didn’t want to move because I didn’t want anything to change. Now that I look back on it, that change was for the best. Change can be a good thing; even if we think we hate it at the time. We need to learn to embrace change and give it a chance; it could end up being the best thing that has ever happened to us. If we had not moved to Massachusetts, I would have missed out on all of the experiences that I have had and all the friends that I have

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