Personal Narrative: My Experience With Asthma

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A challenge I faced when I was younger was Asthma. When I was a toddler I went to the doctors many times to get steroid shots because I would have trouble breathing and be on the verge of having an asthma attack. When I started going to school, every day before going I sat on the couch and was attached to a nebulizer. If I didn’t use the nebulizer I wouldn’t be able to breathe throughout the day. Athma is a monster that sucks the breath out of people killing them. Both this and the description of when I was grasped by Athma, represents how I felt the times in which I was struggling to get air in my lungs. I did feel as if the air around me was just being taken away, and when I had moments that I couldn’t breathe I had to fight for oxygen. It …show more content…
I had a hard time getting through it because I had a lot of regret. I regretted not spending enough time with her and getting to know her even though I had plenty of chances to. The poison that Teget has represents the regret that ate away at me and how I felt in a way. The wearing of no armor represents how I accepted that dwelling on the regret I had wouldn’t help me just like the armor wouldn’t keep me safe against the monster. When I say that I killed the monster with its own poison, I am referring to how I stopped that felling of regret I had by taking steps to prevent this regret from happening by promising to not do this with anyone else I cared …show more content…
The Shifter represents the unknown of my future because no one knows the creature’s true form. Therefore, by revealing it, I’ve figured out the next step for me after graduating high school. The fact that it targets the best of thanes represents how I am someone who has the option of doing something real with my future, but might get off track if I can’t make decisions. The Shifter blends into the kingdom, which shows that my passion for what I want to pursue in the future is out there, but I have to go and find it. The book used to defeat the monster represents my diploma, and why I brought a diploma as a prop. What is written inside is virtually the answers to my future, so if I figure that out the monster of the uncertainty and unknown will be defeated. In order to achieve that I must actively face the future and not just expect all the answers to come to

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