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Personal Narrative: Get What You Get

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Get What You Get
How many times have you looked at someone you know or even a stranger and thought, “I want what they have.”? How many times have you wished things were different and compared your situation to someone else’s? The answer for most people is more than they can remember. I have personally done this too much for my liking and it wasn’t until I was about fifteen that I realized that it was not doing me any good to wish for what others around me had. This is my story of how I spent my childhood focusing on wanting others’ lives and how I learned that nothing is as it appears.
When I was little I had a friend, who was my first crush (shhh), named Isaac. He was eleven when I first met him, when I moved into my house in Tennessee, and I was ten. We lived in a neighborhood that was just the right size, really nice, filled with kids, and safe. Isaac was very energetic and happy and he loved his skateboard and his dog a lot. I remember Isaac use to ride around the whole neighborhood and hang out with a bunch of different kids. I was jealous because my parents would get mad if I went too far up our street and I wanted to be like Isaac and go wherever I wanted to in the neighborhood. I always thought that he was so happy because he had parents that let him have fun and do what he wanted and be friends with who he wanted. At the time …show more content…

You don’t know the half of what any one person goes through. Yes I know that looking at people it appears they have the best life ever but if you could just look passed that I’m sure you would find some flaws that would make you change your mind. In life you get what you get and it is your choice to use that to gain everything else you want or stay with what you have looking out on others wishing for what they’ve got. Anyone can amount to anything they want to be if they just put forth the effort and use their desires to push them to

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