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Personal Narrative Essay: The Box

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The Box I was born with the only thing better than a silver spoon; I was born with a box. The box is the size of a spool of thread, small enough to hide in the palm of my hand. It was made of a material that was slick like ivory, but warm to the touch like silicon. Inside of this box is the most precious thing I own. The earliest memory I have, is of that small box. As a toddler, I often opened up this box with great curiosity seeing the mirage of me within. The box soon became my best ally and plaything. I saw within it something that enticed my small mind and gave me joy to watch. In this box was a moving picture of me. As I grew up I learned more and more about the box. I would open the box when I saw a new friend or learned something I had not known already. The box did not give me comfort yet. I did not know enough to use the box back then for my advantage. The biggest issue I saw with the box was that the short movie of myself seemed to mean nothing. Soon I learned what it truly meant. I had my theories about the box, even as a child. At first, I believed that it had no purpose but to be a bauble to carry around with me to entertain myself. That did not seem to be the conclusion I wanted to draw from it. …show more content…

I of course chose the most obvious job for a man that could, kind of, see the future: a stock broker. While I could not cheat all the time, because of the stupid SEC, I could cheat when it mattered. This gave me access to a moderate amount of wealth. I could obviously tell when stocks were going to rise or fall and most of the time I adjusted accordingly. With this new-found wealth mixed in with my youth, I had access to the clubs and night life of New York City. This let me maintain my hedonistic life style that I had developed in college. I had the ability to travel, on the few short vacations, I had throughout my twenties. I had been fortunate enough to go everywhere I had dreamed of

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