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Personal Narrative: Growing Up

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Growing up, I was always thought that good things come those who wait but growing up I have come to release that was all a lie. If you wait around doing nothing, you won’t get and achieve anything you want. People think waiting for things to happen, it will eventually happen. I was once told by a millionaire that it’s better to take opportunities than to wait on them. You get out what you have put in, so don’t sit around doing nothing. I don’t think that cliché, because in reality to get good things you have to work hard and not give up. There was a point in my life when I would wait on my mom to give me money on the weekends. I spent most my money on clothes and shoes, the money my mom was giving me wasn’t enough to keep up with my spending
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If I want to do, be, or have more I have to become more No truer words were written than this, “If you want to have more, you have to become more. Success is not something your pursue. What you pursue will elude you; it will elude you; it can be like trying to chase butterflies.

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Delayed gratification is one of the most effective personal traits of successful people. People that delay gratification are more successful with their career, relationships, health, finances and really, all areas of life. • Delayed gratification is the ability to resist the temptation for an immediate reward and wait for a later reward. Generally, delayed gratification is associated with resisting a smaller but more immediate reward in order to receive a larger or more enduring reward later.(wikipedia) • Simply, it means making a choice which limits the ability of getting something now, for the pleasure of being able to have something bigger or better later.

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Being able to write about other people being impatient has helped me learn to be more patient. Along with the characters, I found a couple outside sources that have developed being impatient. On the FYI network, there is a show called “Arranged” and two people are set-up because they have doubt in finding true love. Although there are mutliplie instances where couples are perfectly matched, there are more cases that people don’t work out. Next, there is another show that is called, “Millionaire Matchmaker” which is described as millionaires being set-up.

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I am stressed. Not just at one point, just simply all of the time. It is a part of my nature. When people yell, raise their voices or fight with one another it may as well be a full blown fist fight to my anxious heart. It is hard for me to be in close quarters with my family because they are rambunctious and stubborn people.

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