Personal Narrative: How Ben Carson Changed My Life

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As I sat in the back of a black, broken down 1998 Ford F-150 on my way to

school, I pleaded how I am going to start my new life. Right when the truck stopped,

I cranked the door open and saw the white ceramic floor, the red and grey lockers,

and the alphabetically arranged hallways. I was in an American High school. At this

moment a jolt off energy gushed through me and made me feel on top of the world

however as the day progressed, I caught myself observing the ceramic floor more

than the diverse group of people in this school. I felt as if I was an “inbetweener”

and I am not even bi-racial. This feeling of being an outcast made me homesick,

therefore the seven hours I spent in school felt like prison and the lunch breaks were
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After a few months of going through the same bubbled routine, my

English II teacher gave me a book called “The Gifted Hands,” in order for me to get

out of my comfort zone. It was after reading this book, about Ben Carson, I realized

I am not the only kid in high school that is feeling out of place. I learned that

although our experiences might differ, we were all sophomores hoping to zoom

through these few years and become seniors.

Once I established this common ground, I was able to interact more comfortably

with them. Yet I still felt a wedge between us that seemed to never disappear.

Immediately, I came to realize that where I grew up was not a disadvantage, it was

the one thing I will hold dear later in the years because it gave me my unique

perspective. Specifically, growing up in an environment where opportunities were

extremely scarce, forced me to see the world in either two ways, as a pessimist or an

optimist, I chose the latter. I came to the land of opportunity, said by every

foreigner, to get a better education and help the people of my society.

Furthermore, the most crucial lesson I learned from meeting new people, with a

different set of beliefs than mine, was to adapt to the change. On the contrary,