Personal Narrative Essay: Non-Traditional Hero

Personal Narrative Essay: Non-Traditional Hero Stepping off my luxurious yellow-orange limousine with so many of my fellow classmates, the building ahead of me now commands my attention, it is intimidating look only reminded me, this is where I will spend the next four, excruciating years of my life. Each step closer to those double doors, the butterflies that once merely fluttered in my stomach had been replaced with drums and had somehow beaten so loud, their vibrations had traveled north and south of their original location.
Soon, those drums were tucked away at the sight of familiar faces that had become a second home of mine, and this new, unchartered territory did not seem as terrifying.
Along with those same faces that held my fear duplicated that first day, were now fears transferred to my success and, fearfully, failures. Constant thoughts of failure that swarmed my mind. I never knew what was worse, the pain of possible failure, or of disappointment from subject facilitators, parents, relatives, etc. Why can I not focus on me? Why is my life not for me? Why did I stupidly allow people to have access to my life? Constant thoughts that had my complete attention in the first two and a half years being here. Changing everything I could around me, …show more content…
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