Personal Narrative: Firework By Katy Perry

When I look back on my life, I see everything I ever did as a reason for today. The choices I make, affect me and the person I become later on. I notice change on how I feel, what makes me happy and sad, and also what I want to be known for in my existence. All these things I can understand, but still it’s hard to understand why I feel what I feel every, single day. While looking at the picture, listening to the music, and writing songs in the same old book, gives me a reason to wake up every morning and live my life. On the wall, I see a picture of two people; a mother and her son celebrating her birthday, I’m the mother’s son. Seeing the photo now brings back memories of the good times I cherished with her. From playing Mario Party together to eating dinner while watching Cash Cab as a family. Then I realized things changed, but not in a good way. She had a disease, a disease that kills 7.6 million people a year, Cancer. The hospital held her for more than two weeks, but she never came home. The last time I saw her was when she was getting rolled away …show more content…
A song came on the radio called “Firework” by Katy Perry. Listening to those lyrics awoke a feeling I haven’t felt in a long time, happiness. I can recall dancing by myself in the dark to the beat of the song on repeat for hours. It felt like I was preforming on a stage for thousands of people. During this I asked, “Is there more of these songs that make me this happy?” I look on the computer and I see an album called “Teenage Dream”. Listening to that album had me feel many things in just under an hour. Katy Perry for me, makes me feel like I matter, that I’m strong, I’m beautiful, and I can get through obstacles that seem too tough to concur. Overwhelmed by her music and message, I now look at life as something that should be lived to its maximum capacity full of success and