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Narrative Essay On Superheroes

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Bravery comes in all shapes and sizes. Bravery can be obvious or in can be disguised. Superheros are brave, but so are the common people. I had a personal experience that led me to have to be as brave as a superhero. My niece was only a couple months old when she caught a horrible respritory infection, and had to be hospitalized. Everything was so unexpected and happened out of nowhere one day. The day before we had to rush her to the hospital, she was acting normal and playing, laughing, being the regular happy girl she is and the next day she slept in later than she normally would. We went to check on her and she didn't laugh or try to be loving like she always is so we decided to take her to the doctor when they told us she would have to be hospitalized and watched close. I remember walking in and seeing her hooked up to all of the machines she had to be and I lost myself because I couldn't shake the feeling of guilt because I could …show more content…

There was a point while she was there that her body was very weak and they didn't know how long it would take her to heal, that made me very upset because at the time my mind was everywhere and I didn't know what could happen in that period of time. Her body needed to heal but she was so little that her body took extra long to heal itself and it was difficult to be brave. It was hard to not let her see how scared and afraid I was, I knew she needed me to stay as brave as I was but it was getting harder and harder. The longer it was taking for her to get better the less I was able to be brave because I was getting more and more scared. I just kept thinking to myself that she would be okay and that if I stayed brave the quicker she would be okay and before I knew it we were going

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