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Personal Narrative: A Day At Union Square
There is no specific standard for normal in Union Square. Walking around the area, you will see all kinds of people; some people will be battling their stress away in a chess match like, the two guys sitting by the edge of the street with a table and board set up blasting through each others defenses, others are rushing through all the traffic try to reach their destinations, and in the back ground you will see people sitting in all kinds of places, on the steps, ledges, even on the floor, and we can not forget about those playing Pokémon go. As New Yorkers, We see all these things going on around us but we never pay much mind to any of what we could noise of the city. However, today was different. I had set out on a mission to get the perfect …show more content…
I felt tired of always having one more thing on plate and it feeling like a never-ending cycle. Even this paper just adding to the things I have to do. Every fay it is the same struggle wake up in the morning go through my schedule on that day I felt as though all everything I had to do became apparent to me and I was forced to carry it on that moment I felt 1,000 pounds heavier. I felt sluggish and inefficient and then I brushed it all off with a lousy it is necessary. But is it really necessary, I still would not be able to tell anyone a definite answer but, for the time being I reassured myself by reminding myself that all of this is what is going to allow me to achieve my dreams in the near future. I do not know where I will be a year from now and I know less about where I will be in ten years only thing certain to me at this very moment is that I am here at NYU completing the OP summer program struggling through calculus and putting my soul into my essays. Metaphorically I am one of those African grey parrots a student with a chain who unconsciously chooses to follow for fear of the uncertainties that lie in a world were I do not get a college degree. It is necessary for me to graduate from a top school and accomplish my

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