Personal Narrative: My Greatest Achievements In My Military Life

Two decades have passed since I graduated from high school and yet coming to terms with my fears of writing have proven to be an endless and painful endeavor. Even as I wrote these passages I couldn’t stop fidgeting. I still find my thoughts clouded with ideas to type, but those thoughts gave no true purpose. Although I have attempted to recall true personal achievement and I can’t. I concluded that my military life and not civilian has been my greatest achievement thus far, causing me to develop an inferiority complex. So to bridge the gap with my civilian life and my military world I choose to redefine myself in both military and academic achievements. So in the fall of 2014 I began to trudge the path of a middle aged student, balding student, with hopes of some form of enlightenment after the completion of my college degree. I have taken many college courses before, but never an English course to …show more content…
The only development I had mastered were extreme excuses on why I had not attempted taking classes. Excuses like I work too much, or I don 't have time to invest to complete it. I can say, without a doubt, choosing to delay school was the worst mistake in my life. Although choosing to take school seriously in the youth of my military career might have been a mistake and a blessing at the same time. I was terrified and confused when I found myself half way through my military career and still clinging onto an empty bottle of regret. With this lingering scent of failure emanating from pores, I refused to cower in the corner. I actually challenged myself to expand my realm of understanding and to complete college, but I know this is not just something you jump right