Personal Narrative: Growing Up In A Low Income Community

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Throughout my entire life I have been challenged with many vigorous obstacles. Though it has been a struggle, I have managed to overcome them. Some of the obstacles that have made a big impact on myself were growing up in a low income community while struggling financially, coping with my health condition, and my grades drastically dropping during junior year because of low attendance due to being bullied.

At the age of 2, I was brought into a city called Waipahu known as a low income community. With crime rates being high and people without homes lined along the streets of our apartment, it was the only place on O’ahu my parents could afford. From almost getting evicted twice, the thought of being forced onto the streets terrified me and
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It was the start of my freshman year and I was very excited to play Volleyball for a high school team. While I was running during conditioning, I began to feel dizzy and my eyes started to close. Before I knew it I was on the ground and couldn’t get up without the help of my teammates. I was taken to the doctors that day and they told me that one of my heart vessels had a leakage in them called regurgitation After hearing the news, I didn’t want to play volleyball anymore but I knew I was never the person to give up so easily. I came back to practice and told my coach, “I have literally dedicated my ‘heart’ to this sport.” He laughed because my humor showed him that I was a true team player. Although my heart condition has become a minor setback in my life, I don’t let the fear of it happening stop me from doing what I love.

High School became difficult for me my junior year because of the fact that I was being bullied. They told me they wanted to throw me off the school building as well as “catch me in the halls.” The results of this incident caused me to miss school for almost my whole second semester and because of that, my grades became poor. I was terrified to go back because I couldn’t trust anybody and I was worried that the bullying would continue. It took me a long time to heal and I almost didn’t want to go back my senior year but I did. This terrifying event