PersonalNarrativeEssay

My life can be summed up with various words ranging from enjoyable and stimulating all the way to miserable and horrifying. My life is essentially an object. This object is scary for some people and fun for others. Some of these objects go upside down and tall and twist and turn a great deal. Can you guess the object yet? It’s a roller coaster. My life isn’t picture perfect and always the way I want it, yet it’s not depressing and dismal all the time so a roller coaster to me is the perfect fit for an object to describe my life. My life all started when I was born on June 27th 1995, which is where my life map starts. When I was born I was put in the intensive care unit, or ICU, because the doctors thought me and Maddie had spina bifida- a spine condition where you have an incomplete spinal cord. Two years later, On October 16th 1997, someone very close to me was born…my little sister. Me and my little sister tell each other everything and do things together all the time. Even though I sometimes wonder if life would be easier without her, I still love her. After Hannah was born, a few months later when I was 18 months old, I was in a day care and walked right into a window sill. The window sill went through my eyelid, and I was rushed to the hospital to get stitches for my first time. To this day, I still have the scar to remind me of the incident. After my wound had healed, about two years later in September of 1999 I started pre-school. That day I started my school career. So far I am getting closer to finishing up my eighth year of school with at least eight more years ahead to go. A year after starting pre-school near Christmas time I lost my first tooth. I remember that day clearly. I remember running down the stairs to our kitchen screaming “Daddy look! I lost my tooth!” I was exceedingly excited and I had my mom take a picture of me by our front door with me holding up my lost tooth and smiling showing the big gap I had from where the tooth had been. Three years later in August of 2003, I packed up my stuff into a large moving truck and departed from our old house in Menomonee Falls for a two day driving trip to Boston, Massachusetts for my dad’s spine fellowship at Harvard. After getting settled into our cozy apartment in Boston about a month later in September I started playing soccer for the first time. I loved playing every time even though we weren’t the best team and none of us had previous experience. Despite those factors I still had the time of my life making new friends and learning to play the sport I still play now that is the majority of my life. In February we got our first dog- Grace. I actually ended up naming her but unintentionally. We were all in the car one day brainstorming names on the way back from our lake house and I jokingly said random names such as Grace, and my parents automatically clung to that name and gave Grace that name. I remember feeling very special and like an important person after my name for her had been chosen as her official name. Around a year later in July we moved back to Wisconsin into our old home where my aunt had been staying for the year we were gone in Boston. I was excited and overjoyed when we arrived back home and I got to see my best friends again and my neighbors again. A few months later me, Maddie, Hannah and my mom decided to go up to Wausau to ski for a day. That fun day turned into a scary accident after only a few runs down the hills. I remember going onto the chair lift with Maddie and Maddie didn’t get on all the way and was hanging from the chair. The person running the lift wasn’t paying attention and didn’t notice Maddie hanging there. Maddie kept telling me she was losing her grip and she was about to fall so I tried my hardest to try and pull her up back onto the chair. She was too heavy for me to lift by myself and she didn’t have the arm strength to hold on any longer. By that time we were already 30 feet above the ground. Maddie said: “I can’t hang on any longer. I have to let go and drop.” I was terrified and I remember saying “Maddie no! Don’t drop!”, but it was too late she had fallen and when I looked down I saw her body sprawled out on the snowy ground. The lift manager finally noticed and stopped the lift. I remember thinking to myself: “It took her long enough!” After Maddie’s accident, the next summer in 2005 I was playing volleyball and broke my arm. I got up and tried playing right after breaking it but I couldn’t raise my arm and my arm felt like a cinder block. So I sat out the rest of practice and ended up in the Emergency room that night with my dad x-raying my arm. It turned out I had broken it fairly bad and it would take awhile to recover from it because I kept moving it in the brace and displacing it more. A year later in June of 2006, we got our second dog- Luigi. When we took Luigi home he was playful and very energetic. He was always hard to keep up with and he still is. He’s about two years old now and full grown. Two months after getting Luigi I tried out for a national soccer team – FC Milwaukee Nationals. I ended up making the team. I’ve been playing on the national team for almost three years now and I can honestly say I will never go back to playing on any other team that’s lower than a national team because I love playing at the national level so much. Every game is a challenge and a new experience. I’ve gotten to train with the best of the best and I will continue doing so for as long as I can. Last December I moved into our new house which we built. At first I hated the house because it was very different than our last house- there is only about 8 houses in our neighborhood and all of our neighbors are older, so I don’t have any one to hang out with. Since then I’ve adapted and I’ve grown to love the house and I’ve grown to be more thankful than ever for it. Last summer is when my last big occurrence had happened. In June of 2008, I was invited to Holland, England to play on an international soccer team with people from all over the world. I would train with the best coaches and trainers and learn many new skills and improve greatly from it. I didn’t end up going because I missed the meetings that were mandatory to attend in order to go to Holland so I am bummed out about missing going on such a trip. The way I look at it is that at least I am good enough to make it onto an international team in England, but I still see room for more improvement and I know that there always will be room for improvement every step of the way I go in soccer. From all of my life experiences I could think of many messages and lessons I’ve learned from things, but my main message to anyone is never give up. I’ve been through it all- high’s and low’s. I know what it’s like. I go through it every day trying to balance school and soccer. I’m up late every night doing homework and studying, but I know that that is just my life because I play for a national team, and I am willing to work hard every night both in soccer and school work because in the end I know that everything will end up working out just fine. That’s what everyone needs to think; they need to work through the tough times and know that in the end everything will work out and eventually become easier. I never gave up. Through the highs and the lows I never gave up and through it all things got better and easier.
 * __ My life: complicated, exciting and surprising to say the least! __**