Personal Narrative: How School Changed My Life

It was the summer of my freshman year in highschool. I finally had a good group of friends that I felt comfortable around ,and my father and I had started fishing together again. It was at this time that my father made the best decision of his life a little too late. He quit smoking. A couple days into it he felt like he couldn 't breathe. The doctors thought he had a severe case of pneumonia. They were wrong. Later that month he was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer. The day that he was diagnosed was the day where everything started to feel like a dream. Life felt unreal, and then it happened. School was starting back up just like every single september whatever it started back up. With my Dad being in the condition he was in, I felt like it was a waste for me to go to school, but I attended every class because I knew that was what my Dad …show more content…
Lunch time at school was easily my favorite part of my whole day, and I even had it with all of my friends. My escape. It’s what made me feel like that what me and my family were going through was normal when it wasn 't. When I got home I would play videogames, whether it be with my friends or by myself that is all I would do when I was at home. It was my distraction from a crazy life at home. Winter came and my Dad wasn 't getting any better. I started to feel like nothing was ever going to get better. But my father was a very positive always looking at the brightest sign of things he kept all of our hopes up. He became very emotional at this time in his life. I had never seen my dad cry until he was sick. All of my life I always thought that men don 't cry which most of the time is true, but when a man is on his last leg is when he is going break. I specifically remember looking over at him in the hospital and seen him crying and I asked him what was wrong. He said he was scared. This is when I knew that my Dad was never going to get