Personal Narrative: Trip To Change
Trip to Change
Growing up in a small town where everyone knows everyone, you began to lock yourself in, and may forget who you are as a person. As for me my mind was set that I wouldn’t let that happen, but I had anxiety about traveling far from my small town. I decided it was time to break that anxiety to take a trip, to a place far away from my small town I call home, that place being called New York. This trip is what changed my mind about traveling and my outlook on life. I was simple minded, never thought outside of the box. I discovered a new place that indirectly triggered my outlook on life, and opened my mind! I suffer from anxiety among many other things, so I was bound to have anxiety about going to a place I have never been to before right? Once I stepped off that plane, I had felt like I had seen a new world. The best part about it was, I had no feeling of anxiety for once in my life! If I had never gone on this trip I wouldn’t have known how to look at life and mold it into my own.
It all began with me really coming to a point in my life, realizing …show more content…
My heart pumping, anxiety ripping through my mind like a freight train, “I stepped on the plane . . .” “I stepped off the plane. . .” it was so quick as if so I didn’t have a second to think. As I proceeded with my trip, walking through the streets of Brooklyn meeting everyone that had a moment to spare, asking them what they recommended I see. I went to roof top bars, ate every pizza place that iconic of New York and Brooklyn, sat out on the terrace at night admiring the city’s sounds and lights. Everyday passed quick, and before I knew it I was returning home to my small town. I carried one thing with me till this day, what I saw there and experience changed me, it changed my mind about traveling and most important my outlook on life. This was the time I went to New York and felt my anxiety diminish and my mind changed and beginning to
Growing up in a small town where everyone knows everyone, you began to lock yourself in, and may forget who you are as a person. As for me my mind was set that I wouldn’t let that happen, but I had anxiety about traveling far from my small town. I decided it was time to break that anxiety to take a trip, to a place far away from my small town I call home, that place being called New York. This trip is what changed my mind about traveling and my outlook on life. I was simple minded, never thought outside of the box. I discovered a new place that indirectly triggered my outlook on life, and opened my mind! I suffer from anxiety among many other things, so I was bound to have anxiety about going to a place I have never been to before right? Once I stepped off that plane, I had felt like I had seen a new world. The best part about it was, I had no feeling of anxiety for once in my life! If I had never gone on this trip I wouldn’t have known how to look at life and mold it into my own.
It all began with me really coming to a point in my life, realizing …show more content…
My heart pumping, anxiety ripping through my mind like a freight train, “I stepped on the plane . . .” “I stepped off the plane. . .” it was so quick as if so I didn’t have a second to think. As I proceeded with my trip, walking through the streets of Brooklyn meeting everyone that had a moment to spare, asking them what they recommended I see. I went to roof top bars, ate every pizza place that iconic of New York and Brooklyn, sat out on the terrace at night admiring the city’s sounds and lights. Everyday passed quick, and before I knew it I was returning home to my small town. I carried one thing with me till this day, what I saw there and experience changed me, it changed my mind about traveling and most important my outlook on life. This was the time I went to New York and felt my anxiety diminish and my mind changed and beginning to