Personal Narrative: Change

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Change Change is something that alters your lifestyle, the way you live and how you act. Where you grew up for example, can impact who are as a person. Then one day that lifestyle that you had will change. Your dad will tell you he is done with his job in Texas and wants you to move to the opposite side of the country. Iowa, more specifically Orange City, the middle of somewhere. Coppell, this is where I grew up I knew every square inch of the town of 40,000 people. I knew where all the hangouts were, where you go to eat on the weekends, where not to go. So here, where I am right now, is different. Even though it is a small town, I get lost, I get myself driving around in circles. It is almost like I’ve lost some of my freedom. So many changes are occurring all at once, I’ve become numb to them, like your tongue when you eat ice cream too fast; You don’t taste the minty chocolate flavor anymore, just a coldness that’s slightly sweet. Here I am telling a story about tragedy, sadness and new found loves. Change is what you make it, plain and simple it can be a momentous, joyous experience or it can be the most horrific thing that’s ever …show more content…
One Sunday it was just “the possibility of moving”, then one week passes and its “Ok, We’re moving”, and then a month passes and there’s a bunch of large, sweaty guys in my house packing boxes and taking away all my beloved possessions. It is a for sale sign in the yard as a daily reminder that this won’t be my house for much longer, not my room, or my swimming pool in the backyard, or the woods that form a green canopy in the summer. In reality this wasn’t the hard part. These were just possessions as I said, things that don’t matter when you’re lying on your death bed, looking around at the faces of people you’ve loved. So, that was going to be the hard part, the part where you have to say goodbye, but you’re not really saying goodbye, you say “See ya later” because it’s not as