Personal Narrative: My Personal Michigan Hero

My personal Michigan hero is my father. For this essay I chose my father because all my life I have looked up to him, even when I was too young to realize it, because my dad has guided me through life, teaching me valuable life lessons and will always be there for me and my family. My dad has changed so much in his life for my brother and I, spent hours for a day for years raising us to be the people we are today and I could never repay that. At a young age my father’s parents divorced, and he did not see his real father often because he was in the Coast Guard. He then vowed at a young age, and then to his future wife(my mother) that he would never divorce and do that if he had children. Decades later he met my mom and after dating for a few years, getting married, and waiting a bit longer I was born. We lived in a small house and my parents made just enough money for the two of them so they decided when I was three years old to move to Michigan from sunny Arizona for a new job opportunity. When I was younger, after the move, I never liked preschool or elementary school, so if I ever had a …show more content…
He let me quit swim lessons after completing all the levels instead of doing team or diving, and never pushed me into continuing soccer, which was more of my brothers cup of tea. That was when I started archery. My dad took me to the sportsman’s club every Sunday for an hour in the winters to shoot, and after a year he got me my first bow. I got better and better, and my dad supported me, helping me with whatever he could, proud. It was the same when I started gymnastics. Before I even started he taught me how to do a cartwheel, which I had always been to scared to do, but he inspired me to always work my hardest each practice, to get up when you fall and go for new things. These words stayed with me throughout the end of elementary school and into middle school when I learned new things and met new