The Glass Castle Reflection

While I have not had nearly as many hardships in my life as Jeannette Walls in her book The Glass Castle, there are still some things that her and I have in common. Throughout the book, Walls endured many struggles while traveling with her dysfunctional family. Jeannette’s father is constantly getting in the way of her success, from stealing her money to not always making her go to school. Eventually, she leaves her parents behind and makes her way to New York City, where she goes to college and finds success. Similar to how Jeannette had to overcome the obstacles between her and her success, her parents in The Glass Castle, I had to overcome the obstacle between me and my success, my bones. Ever since I was in the 6th grade, I have always wanted to run. One of my best friends in middle school, Ty Gleason, was a year older than me, and I always saw his personal best times posted on his locker at school. This made me very eager to start cross country in the fall of my seventh grade year. From then on, I fell in love with the sport of running, and I was …show more content…
I texted my dad to have him run home and get me some Ibuprofen, and I’m sure I must have taken enough that night that my kidneys will never forgive me. When Eric came to get me to warm up, I got up and did an awkward limp to the door. He asked if I should still be running, and I assured him that I would be fine. At this point, no amount of pain medication would work, and I stepped up to the start line fully expecting to finish in last place, have Quisno find out about my injury, and freak out at me. I ended up running almost 30 seconds slower than my best time, but I still managed to finish in 5th place to help out the team. After the meet, my friends Alex and Brett asked me to come over and stay the night, but I was so unbelievably tired from dealing with all of the pain that I went home and slept for 12 hours