Personal Narrative Essay: You Reap What You Sow?

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“You reap what you sow” is what my parents use to always tell me. Meaning there is always a consequence to your actions. I never really listened thinking they don’t have a clue about what they are talking about. I let everything go to one ear and out the other ear. I thought just because I am in college that I knew everything. Until one day it really hit me, and I mean it hit hard.
It began on August 18, 2017, it was move in day at Alcorn State University. I was so happy to finally move out of the house and start doing things on my own. My parents was sadden that their only child is leaving. At six o’clock that morning, we started our day. The first stop was to Walmart to get personal items, food, and cleaning supplies. Next, we went to the gas station to fill up my dad’s truck and my mom’s car (Brown-sugar). Then, went home and loaded everything to the truck and filled up the car. By this time,
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After relieving myself from being worried, BOOM, I hit a deer! I could not believe it. I was in total shock! The blinkers and air bag sensors came on, and smoke started fueling in the car. I began to panic and was too scared to even look at the damage. I drove to the security officer in the welcome center. I explained to him what happened and told him that my mom was going to snap on me. He kept me calm and told me to call my dad and he would explain to him what happened. The security guard kept reminding me that it wasn’t my fault. After talking to my dad, he said he will tell my mom in the morning because usually she be sleep around this time. But no, this night she is up. I received a text message from her saying, “ What the fuck have you done?” I was too scared to even text her back. Then she said, “ Why the hell are you driving at night anyways, I’m coming tomorrow to get my motherfucking car and send me the pics of the car.” I just replied with, “K”. I told my friend to send her the pictures because I didn’t want to text her

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