Personal Narrative-My Hero's Journey

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Has there ever been that one moment where you've looked at the life you've been leading and wondered 'what if'? I'm pretty sure the answer is 'yes'. I know for certain that I've asked myself this on more than one occasion. Each time I've pondered it, I've wondered where my life would be now had I the power to retrace my steps and take the alternative path - the road lest travelled. I stared at the aged photograph within my hands and found myself grimace. I've always been afraid of the unknown, ever since my closest companion was wretched from me. I remember the day so clearly, yet, it feels as if it were a dream, a hallucination, a surreality. A string of music would play, beautiful and full of the nostalgic memories of him. My mind would drift…show more content…
We went every where together, did everything together. We told each other everything and as we grew older, made plans for the future. Both our families had been torn to shreds, through divorce and utter misery. Humour hadn't been part of our lives until we met one another. I held the photograph within both hands, the force of the memory shuddered through me. I touched the image the crumpled photograph held, reminiscing. We used to always meet at our secret location, a place only we knew of. Our little secret to be kept forever and ever. We'd take our cameras everywhere we went incase we might chance upon a sacred site to perhaps make memories upon. In the shadows and safeties of our trees, we hid and told one another, "its you and me against this world." I remember the time we promised each other to never look in the past to regret, never to the future to fill ourselves with hopes, but to the present. Grasp it like a gift to be taken into our strides. Together we brought happiness into our lives by photography. I remember spending hours in a field, running, laughing as he captured the present through his lens. I would pour greedily over the photographs after they'd been developed, absorbing the memories and smiling at promising prospects for the future. I knew my life would fall to shambles if we were parted and I was grateful that he was in my…show more content…
It appears to be a rather large mirror getting closer and closer until I feel myself being engulfed by it's freezing depts. Still I fall, deeper and deeper into the mirror, the clock becoming louder and louder, the steady chimes imprinting themselves in my mind. The sound of pages being scrawled on grew loud, an orchestra struck up a waltz in a minor tune, the string instruments erupting with life. Finally I've stopped falling and was now within a dimly lit cave . Looking above me I see a pool of swirling water, silver droplets dripping upwards into it. I cast one last quick glance to the portal before advancing towards the soft rays of sunlight. I step out of the dark cave, before me is a valley bursting with life, much like my painting, just much, much better. I feel eager to explore, set myself on a journey and return at the first hints of

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