Personal Narrative: Going Back To Square One

The saying of “going back to square one” is widely employed within the English language today for its applicability to several kinds of scenarios in our everyday lives - particularly scenarios involving stagnation and resignation. I’ve always been a fairly lax individual, comprehending academic material rather quickly. Because I wasn’t being posed any academic challenge and was stagnating in progress in primary school, I was granted the opportunity to jump an entire school year ahead, circumventing my 5th grade school year, and going straight to 6th. Even then, I remained at the top of my class. Starting in my freshman year, I wanted to push my luck, and began participating in extracurricular events and activities - more specifically, the performing arts of choir and theatre. Balancing school, extracurricular activities, sleep, and my social life was rather easy in my first two years of high school. I would come to find out that it wouldn’t all be a breeze.
In my junior year, after the fall production in which I had performed ended, the director of the show gave out proposal applications for those interested in directing a one-act play. In the spur of the moment while he was handing out applications, I decided to try my hand and
We’re made up of our prior experiences - good, bad, and ugly. They carry with us and teach us important lessons throughout our whole lives. So, instead of “going back to square one”, I believe that we simply move forward to square two, and three, and so on and so forth in our lifetimes. Minor setbacks are simply progressions to the next square of experiences, as opposed to regressing to a prior version of ourselves. Even in these upcoming influential months of my life as I find out where I’m going to college, I fervently welcome any and all results - they’ll only serve to build my character and teach me valuable lessons as I advance to the next stage - the next square - of my