Personal Narrative: My Personality Traits

Rapper, Jermaine Cole once said, “You have to hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain; because most of life’s lessons are learned in pain.” This quote has taught me how to deal with hard life situations, using my three most apparent traits. I am caring, silly, and family oriented. And although those traits are bad depending on the situation, they are also some of the best perks of my personality. Each drawing on my mandala describes a difficult, or great moment in my life. All of these events have showed at least one of the three main personality traits that describe me.
When I was four years old, I moved to Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. Surprisingly, I wasn’t very excited to enter the small town, and didn’t feel the need
I found out things that I could say and do when I met other people, so that they wouldn’t think that I was inexperienced. In fifth grade, I was hanging out with sixth and seventh graders who told me that drugs were cool. I never really discussed drugs in school, or with my family, so I didn’t realize that they were peer pressuring me. I had to lie every time they asked me if I wanted to smoke, because I knew that it would affect me one day. Soon enough, they cut off connections with me because I wasn’t cool enough, but I’m blessed every day that they decided to stop talking to me because I don’t know where I would be right now if I had taken any of the pills they attempted to hand me, or inhaled any of the drugs that they would lay in between their fingers.
As I got older, I started to visit my dad. He had got in contact with his dad in Alabama, and we flew down during the summer of sixth grade. This was a life changing experience for me, because I met family members that I barely knew existed. Hearing about my family, and how many things they had went through in their lives, made me happy to have cousins, uncles, and grandparents I could tell things to. I had a lot of built up anger toward my dad, and the trip really made me understand why my parents divorced, and why I had to accept