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Personal Narrative: Changing With Life

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CHANCING WITH LIFE I can’t blame it on anyone about the ostentatious lifestyle that I grew up in my childhood. Back in the 70’s my uncle always spoiled me and my twin brother with lavish things like jewelry, money, girls and all the material things. He also supplied us with all the latest fad drugs. It wasn’t before long that my focus was fixed on material things. Despite the fact that I was dexterous, my concentration was focused on the wrong things. I wasn’t dumb, but I didn’t know any better. In any event let me relate to you my about story. One day 8 to 10 of my friends and myself were going to a friendly party in Croaker, VA. The party itself was supposed to be rudimentary. We were only going to eat, reminisce and talk about the good …show more content…

Once there we realized that the vibe was not cool. There were people there with guns and I was accused of messing with someone’s girl. In which I did not. Instead of confronting them because we knew it was going to be trouble, we made our exit and headed back down the highway speeding erratically again all the way. We still didn’t care then that we were chancing with life. The night was not over yet. We arrived in Yorktown about 30 minutes from Croaker still in one piece. When we reached the apartment complex we noticed a small fire by the building. We just stared at it euphorically, paying no attention to the fact that the flames were coming from a car with someone in it. Once we realized what was really going on, we jumped into action pulling him out of the car vigorously because he was a tall and robust man.Momentarilly, after we pulled him out of the car… it exploded! After the explosion the gentleman was revived and thanked us mercifully for our heroic act. Now I realize looking back at my foolish youth that we all probably did inane actions that were oblivious to the fact that we were playing Russian roulette with our lives. did a lot of things to take chances with our lives. Moral of the story. Be mindful of what you do and who you are with because we don’t always get a second chance at

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