Personal Narrative: What Made Me To Be Who I Am Today

As my high school years seem they are rapidly coming to an end, I am faced with the seemingly never-ending process of personal statements for college. As I sat down to write my first essay, I was faced with a question which deceivingly seemed all too easy to answer which was; What has brought me to this point, how did I get to be who I am today? Immediately following this question my mind races through a vast amount of memories beginning as early as preschool up until what time I decided to go to sleep the night prior. Although as I seem to comb through my early childhood and teenage memories with a fine toothed-comb I am struck with the realization that not one moment in my life has defined me. I am a complex eighteen-year-old made up of an extensive amount of experiences (either good or bad), and not one “thing” has ever defined me. I have a broad amount of talents and aspects that make up who I am, all that have developed beginning from my early childhood. There have been many …show more content…
I have learned that for me, being intelligent may not come as easily as it does for my peers, but regardless of this I will work hard to accomplish my goals. My freshman year of high school and the events prior to the beginning of my high school career have taught me that I am much more than just my academics, I am also my talents and morals. It has been slowly throughout my high school career that I have brought back my passion for learning. I have had to learn the hard way that school is important, and that to have good grades I must always work hard for them. I have not always been a star student, but I will continue to work to become one, and in that means that I must learn to accept when I fail, but never ceasing to work hard to come back from those failures and to learn from those failures. I may not be number one in my class, but I know that one day I can and will