Personal Narrative Essay: The Worst News Of My Life

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I remember the day like it was yesterday even though it 's been years ago after taking tests and physicals for over a year, staring at Asvab books and laptops that were not mine determining what my life was going to turn into. I then got the best/worst news of my life. I didn 't get accepted into the military, even though it was a huge relief to me I could tell my father was disappointed.
Sitting on the couch, tossing around my white Iphone. I hear my phone ring I look down and the police are calling aka my dad. My father then telling me I 'm sorry, your GPA and transcripts show that when you got taken off your meds your grades dropped too much. A silence of sadness was the only noise you could hear on the phone, so silent I could hear the fan in the
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Black seats so hot from sitting in the sun he couldn 't be any more heated about the bad news could he I thought? After a few hours my dad walks through the doors, and gave me a white envelope which had my transcripts sealed inside. I take the envelope, and walk away into my room where I set it on a black wooden table, and dash away. As if it 's
Poisonous or something, to this day I still have the unopened envelope not in the same place but buried in a stack of mail on my book shelf. As I wake up the next morning not so agitated about the bad news, I sit and think to myself why should I even care I got what I wanted. Why did I feel so bad about it though? It was my plan to not get accepted but not be a second year senior.
Excited to go buy cute glass and plastic glasses and tapestrys for my new life in college and new room. Leaning towards moving to Tallahassee or Gainesville. I forgot to even think ohh wait I 'm a second year senior and I 'm not moving any time soon. Upset about my moving situation was I selfish or was it too soon to ask if I could still have

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