Personal Narrative: My Inheritance In My Life

Inheritance is a big part of who we are as a person. Ranging from our passions to our desires and even our dreams. Inheritance can be something physical, emotional, characteristic, or a personality. Everyone can say they inherited something different from each other or something similar. I know my mother and grandparents have given me a lot to inherit including my uncles. They taught me many important things in life and thankfully I was able to take it all in, allowing me to become the person I am today. I am proud to be the person I am today but I know there are many more life skills and knowledge I can inherit to become a better person than I was yesterday.

Living the dream, slaving the day away. I’m very thankful to my mother and grandparents

No matter what the circumstance. As I started to grow up into a young man i started to go to work with my grandparents. My grandpa had a landscaping business, where i cut grass and pulled the weeds. He always told me to take things slow and calm when I first started a job. I would continue to work with him during weekends and during my school breaks, I enjoyed the time I got to spend with him at work learning new and interesting things. One particular day stuck in my mind a Friday afternoon, February 2010 one of the clients my grandpa had worked for came out screaming at him. The man complained about something in his backyard that was broken, one thing that didn't break was my grandfathers calm face. My eyes popped wide open and I wanted to drop my jaw to the floor hearing the way this man spoke to my grandpa. My gramps calmly replied in his broken english “yes, I go check out” we went to the back and one of the sprinklers in the back had been leaking he quickly fixed it and we went on our way. Later that day I asked why he would let that man talk to him in that way, he looked at me with a smile on his face and said “porque es lo correcto” he proceeded to tell me that the way a person reacts to someone else's anger says alot about oneself, as well as someone else's anger should not influence the way you act. I took that in and found out a few days later that man had apologized to him and offered to pay him double for the lawn

Despite all the hard work, pain, agony, and stress all their jobs put them through my family always seemed to keep a big smile on their faces. I know that they stayed strong and kept their chins up but there were days that I knew were very exhausting for them. One day for the first time May 5th 2013 we ate together as a family my mother, grandparents, and both uncles. I remember the warm feeling of being around family for the first time. I felt surprised that everyone in my family was all together. That day as we sat around the kitchen table filled with laughter, big smiles, and funny stories from everyone's work I decided to ask something. I took a deep breathe and asked “ why do you all smile so much knowing that work gets really hard” the table was now filled with silence. The first response I had received was a pat in the back from one of my uncles and huge smiles from everyone at the table. Their responses stuck with me from that day on, responses that still sound through my head and beat in my heart. The most important one they said to me “no matter how hard things get, no matter how tired you are, or how much pain you are in. If there is something you cherish and want to protect ,always make sure to do it with a smile on your face, because once you stop smiling it will be difficult to get it