When I first learned of this assignment to write a self narrative, I was not really sure what I was going to write about. I thought about just starting off when I was born and name certain events about myself, but they were all just really boring. This is probably because I really do not like talking about myself and I usually try to avoid it in some ways. Then I just figured I would write about the things in my life that have been important to me. Well, there are two things that have been pretty constant in my life for quite some time. One is my family, which includes my friends, and the other is swimming.
My sister and I are about 6 years apart, so naturally I always wanted to do everything she did. When she was about 8 she decided she wanted to join our communities swim team. It was competitive, but for kids her age it was more fun than anything. At that point, I was only two, and when I was old enough to realize what she was doing every night and why I was always watching people swim, I decided that when I was old enough I was going to join the same team and swim with my older sister. So when I was 5 I started lessons and at 6 I was able to join the team. At that point swimming became my favorite sport and activity. I loved it, and I wasn’t that bad at it compared to the other kids who sometimes couldn’t make the length of the pool. When I began swimming competitions I loved to compete. I would always want to win so I could get ribbons and trophies and all that other good stuff. That is when I fell in love with swimming, when I was only 6 and achieving some of the best times for our team at that time and having my name put on the record board for those times in my age group. It was exciting and I loved every moment of it. I kept enjoying swimming up until my sophomore year of high school. I was still swimming with the community swim club, but most of the time it was training for the high school season or just swimming in the high school season. I still enjoyed it, but then the head coach of our team was fired, due to her assistant coach petitioning to get her off the team so she could be head coach. I was devastated. The head coach had been my coach since I was 6 and like another mom for me. The assistant coach and I did not get along whatsoever. So at that point, swimming became more of a burden than anything else. Practices were boring and all I did was get yelled at. It was just not fun anymore. For my junior and senior year the new coach did all she could to ruin it for me. She denied me being a captain and gave the position to an underclassman just because I missed one practice. However, through all the drama, swimming was still a very important aspect of my life. I am not swimming for the team here and I might do intramural swimming, but I am still unsure.
Family is something almost everyone finds important. When I think of family I don’t just think of my mom and dad, but also my friends that have been there for me. Family has always played a huge role in my life. I have almost always gotten along with my mom and always with my dad. They have always been very supportive, which has helped a lot when it comes to making decisions. I have one sister and she is like my best friend. Like I said before she is about 6 years older than me, but we are very close. Then there are my friends back home, which I miss every single day. I wish they could be here with me, but they are all back home in Pittsburgh going to school there. I think family is so important to me because I always think of them and I can tell them anything, or mostly anything. I think my family just shaped me into the person I am today, and I am thankful for all that they have done for me. They have always encouraged me to do what I want and have fun and never put real strict restrictions on me, which I think is much better than the controlling parents, however that is just because I had friends with parents like that, and it did not look like fun. I miss my family and friends and home, but I am still very happy being here at Penn State.
Therefore, the two things that have been very important to me has been my family, including my friends, and swimming. Both have shaped me into the person I have become and will continue to shape me into who I will be someday. Swimming has taught me so many valuable lessons among other things, and I am thankful for that, and knowing my family will always be there for me is such a nice feeling and without them I don’t know what I would do. So basically, that is my self narrative, that is who I am and how I got there in a way.
I sampled from K2Boarder. I used his ideas on family, and that gave me an idea on what I could write about in my narrative.
I also sampled ideas from Laxer on how to use a hobby or a sport to describe myself by describing what I grew up doing.
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