Narrative Essay About My Perfect Life

My life is not perfect; however, nobody has a perfect life. I was born in Minnesota but lived in Iowa for four years until my family moved to Minnesota. At the time, my parents worked at a facility where troubled juveniles would live and turn their lives around. After the business started taking a turn for the worst, my parents took on new jobs. My mom now works as a director at a drug and alcohol center for women, and my dad is an executive at a company that makes drug tests. They both do very well financially, but they put much work in to get where they are today. Due to my parents being able to financially afford a great lifestyle for me, I had the chance of taking part in numerous activities during high school. I have been playing sports competitively since I was nine up until college. I played volleyball year-round; the fall season was school volleyball, winter through spring was Junior Olympic (JO) volleyball, and the summer was filled with camps and small volleyball leagues. Also, during the fall season, I was a student trainer for my high school football team. With that, I participated on basketball and softball. Like volleyball, softball took up a lot of my time. With lots of hard work, I was able to outplay an older player and be the starting catcher for two years in school ball. Although sports took over most of my life, I still

Although I have been working on it by doing a few pageants in high school, I still hate that I am not farther along in my progress. Before, I used to panic weeks before having to stand up in front of a small crowd just to introduce myself. I am now able to get though half of my speech before turning bright red and shaking. On the positive side, I have lost most of my nervous stutter. Whereas some people have aspects they hate but cannot be fixed, I am lucky to have the advantage on turning my disliking aspect into an aspect I am proud to