Personal Narrative: What Is Your Personal Dragon

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What Is Your Personal Dragon Everyone has their own dream or achievements they want to conquer. Some people want to climb Mount Everest and some want to lose 10 pounds. People have these goals because it challenges them to push their body. These challenges do not come easy to anybody, not to the person that wants to climb Mount Everest and not to the person that wants to lose 10 pounds. The obstacles that push people to want to achieve these challenges knows as psychological dragons vary in every person. To slay them one must find ways to build the courage to break free from the dragon.
My dragon began to rise when I started 6 grade. My dragon has always been being afraid to let people down, I have never played in a team sport or like doing group projects in class for that reason. I have never found way to really get over this problem. Many times I have tried to get
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I have to get past my dragon for the career I want to take. In the film industry everyone has to trust everyone for the movie to work. The journey I must take this senior year can become quite an interesting one. This feeling comes from my head. I know people do not worry about this as much as I do. For one, if I just worry about doing my job on the movie set nothing will go wrong and I won't let anybody down. As far as group projects in school goes. Very few people have the guts to tell someone to leave their group. Most of these ideas come from my head and if I can learn to get out of my way my achievements can get better. If i could get over this dragon my achievements would be sky high. Most of my school work could have been better, not just group projects, but anything from test to class work. I have always had the problem that i can never do good enough work for my parents. Sometimes it gets

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