Personal Narrative: How Loss Has Changed My Life

Life is about not only making choices, but about making the right ones. Every moment in life I have experienced has molded my character into what it is now. There is one moment that does stand above the rest in terms of how it helped shaped my character. Loss is never easy to process, so when I lost my grandmother in the beginning of the summer of my senior year I was left with a choice. To either let grief consume me , or persevere and grow despite my loss.

As my junior year closed, a call came in on Saturday morning that rocked my whole world. My aunt’s weak voice was on the other end of the line and I listened to her explain the news I had dreaded hearing for years. My grandmother, the wisest woman and only one of my grandparents I had known, had passed away. At first, I tried to deny it and pretend that I was in some sort of bad dream. As the hours dragged on, I had to come to accept that this was reality. This reality became so much more apparent as soon as I held her box of ashes in my shaky hands and had to help put her away with others in my family who have passed. The emotions began to rock me and caused withdrawal in myself and change into a version of myself that no one could admire. I knew these emotions could not dominate me so I had to work through it and rise above tragedy. …show more content…
I refused to resign myself to an attitude of aggression, sarcasm , and spite, and decided, instead, to be the person that would make my grandmother proud. The best option for myself was to study and enjoy life again. Through perseverance and determination, my character was returning to the values and morals that I had followed before