Village Point-Personal Narrative

It’s really funny thinking back about how it all began. A kid with no experience whatsoever of Parkour attempted one of the higher level tricks and succeeded. It was hot, the sun was bright and my clothes were sticking to my red body. My palms were sweating, was it nervousness? No, it was excitement, or it could just have been the furious heat of the fiery orb we called a sun. Maybe I was overthinking things and being overly cautious, but I look toward Shaggy and asked,
“You sure I can do this?”
“Of course you can man, we’ve been practicing this for while!”
“Yeah man, even if you fall we’ll help you up”
“Ignore Joe, it’s just confidence, we all know you can do it so go for it Pang!”
That was when my world turned upside down before returning to the original state. I was 13 years old when a couple of strangers showed me another world. It was a world filled with vibrant hues that put my colorless and bleak world to shame. Don’t get me wrong, I was by no means a depressed kid and I was happy …show more content…
Like usual my friends and I went to the shopping center near our house, Village Point center, and pick ourselves up some membership cards for a game called Runescape. Village Point was full of small buildings and structures that was scalable and I guess it was a hot spot for traceurs, of course I didn’t know that at the time. As we were about to leave the bustling shopping center I met them, the three strangers or traceurs who would soon be my mentors and friends. I saw a guy with shaggy blond hair, which reminded me of a stereotypical surfer dude, doing a wallflip in the streets and I was immediately drawn in. I wanted to learn how to do that. Of course my friends, Zach and Alec, didn’t want anything to do with it and left to play the game, but I was too interested in that wall flip to forget about it. I was nervous and scared as I walked up to him, fidgeting with the hem of my shirt to keep calm. I asked him