Personal Narrative Essay: How Fate Controls Of Our Lives
People see fate as something they have control over due to being able to make decisions changing the outcome of their lives. Keeping in mind all individuals do not have the same luxury. External impact the course of his or hers destiny. Race, background and religion assist in predetermining someone's life outcome. These key factors are not acted out by mankind, but by fate.
If life would be predictable, individual’s controlling every aspect of their lives than our world would be polar opposite than today. A young man abandoned at birth, stealing food and sleeping on the streets of Paris. Unknowing when his next meal is going to be and a stranger to the feeling of love. Rejected by society and destined to a miserable and lonely life. A soldier …show more content…
Last summer was the first time I accepted that fate controls our lives. It was the second week of summer and one night I was at home watching TV with my family and all of a sudden a feeling washed over me that something bad was about to happen. After five minutes I was experiencing the worst pain in my life. Passing out on our kitchen floor, my parents immediately called an ambulance. Waking up in a hospital bed with an IV in my arm terrified me. I still recall my mother sitting by my side whispering to me that everything was going to be okay. After a little while the doctor came into my room and started to explain that my appendix had about an hour before bursting and that they had to perform an emergency operation to remove it. What the doctor explained was going to be a “simple procedure” could have ended my life. During the surgery there were complications resulting in me lost more blood than I should have done. My fate could have been decided right then and there but I got lucky. Thankfully I woke up in a okay condition. Coming home from the hospital in an absurd amount of pain, having to rest for about two months and not being able to move around, see my friends or participate in any family activities made last summer almost unbearable. However the incident helped me realize that no matter how much I want to change my fate it
If life would be predictable, individual’s controlling every aspect of their lives than our world would be polar opposite than today. A young man abandoned at birth, stealing food and sleeping on the streets of Paris. Unknowing when his next meal is going to be and a stranger to the feeling of love. Rejected by society and destined to a miserable and lonely life. A soldier …show more content…
Last summer was the first time I accepted that fate controls our lives. It was the second week of summer and one night I was at home watching TV with my family and all of a sudden a feeling washed over me that something bad was about to happen. After five minutes I was experiencing the worst pain in my life. Passing out on our kitchen floor, my parents immediately called an ambulance. Waking up in a hospital bed with an IV in my arm terrified me. I still recall my mother sitting by my side whispering to me that everything was going to be okay. After a little while the doctor came into my room and started to explain that my appendix had about an hour before bursting and that they had to perform an emergency operation to remove it. What the doctor explained was going to be a “simple procedure” could have ended my life. During the surgery there were complications resulting in me lost more blood than I should have done. My fate could have been decided right then and there but I got lucky. Thankfully I woke up in a okay condition. Coming home from the hospital in an absurd amount of pain, having to rest for about two months and not being able to move around, see my friends or participate in any family activities made last summer almost unbearable. However the incident helped me realize that no matter how much I want to change my fate it