Personal Narrative: Arlington County

A certain childhood place always takes me back whenever I flip through my family’s dusty photograph books, and that place is an apartment area in which my family used to live in Arlington, VA. Honestly, I do not understand why this place is the first place to attest in my mind as beautiful. I doubt anyone could consider an apartment beautiful. What is more, I know there were times I despised the place; particularly, since I was the baby in my family, everyone left the apartment for either school or work, and I felt lonely. Nevertheless, perhaps, Arlington, VA was beautiful because I made it so in my mind.
My family and I lived in an apartment in Arlington, VA, for a year. Arlington County is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is
My family and I visited the Lincoln Memorial, the Arlington National Cemetery, and the Vietnam Memorial. Although these places all sounded official and boring, I remember being overcome with awe whenever I visited these places. Whether the places were proof that history did exist or that I possessed patriotism for my country, these places made me very happy.
Now, looking at one particular photograph of my brothers and I smiling with our eyes closed in order to spite my parents near a cathedral in Arlington, VA, I think we all have a place that we can call beautiful. I know Arlington, VA is consummate place that made me feel happy many times, years ago. However, sometimes I doubt people will find it as beautiful as I have always rendered it to be. I wonder if I visit the place again if that same euphoria I possessed for it years ago will still be present. Possibly, beauty is in the eyes of the