Personal Narrative: My First Memoir

Looking back on my previous memoirs, I am slowly starting to realize how quickly things change. From what college you want to go to, to what career you want, or even your point of view on a particular subject. I have come to understand that nothing is truly set in stone. We build and adapt to the world around us. Whether it is to fit in with a crowd or to make a situation affect you in a positive way. Just from looking at my first memoir, I can tell that I have grown as a person and as a student. In my first memoir I talked about how I was dragged to a fire and forced to talk to people. Which of course didn’t happen and I ended up sitting by myself most likely playing on my phone. There are so many moments through the year that I regret not pushing …show more content…
Some time in November, the terrorist group ISIS led an attack on Paris, putting the world in a state of fear. Although the attack brought the world together, there was a lot of helter skelter in every country. The only other thing more extreme than these attacks was the news coverage. It was to the point that you couldn’t find a news station not talking about ISIS. There were times that I wasn’t sure the news coverage would ever stop. Then out of nowhere the all the publicity stopped and I might see something about ISIS once a month. It is as though the group just disappeared and no one remembers. However this isn’t the first time that has happened. Just last year there was an Ebola outbreak that sparked debate in America. Everyone was worried about how the sickness would affect their lives and whether or not it would spread farther. Ebola was the “hot button topic” of America and you couldn’t go through a day without hearing something about it. However, the moment something else happens, everyone stops talking about Ebola. It is almost like the problem never happened in the first