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Personal Narrative: My Hero's Journey

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Diffident little Greg was being languid. All he did was watch TV and do nothing with his pathetic life. One day he realized he was malcontent with the continuum that is his life. He decided he was going to augment his attitude. He decided to go on a journey to become intrepid which would be a travail for him as he normally does nothing at all. The journey would take an adroit human which he was not. Greg’s dogmatic and choleric mother would always remind him with philippic words that he was basically defunct. Greg, being the gullible boy he was, only took that as a peccadillo instead of making a big deal out of it. When he set off towards the mountains on his journey he realized the mountains are very abstract and hard to navigate through.
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