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Personal Narrative: A Warrior's Life
A warrior, it is a concept of winning the battle through the respect and service of which you love and are driven to excel at. A warrior can be defeated but has won many times. He is one that never gives up and never backs down. One that will put up a fight even when he is down. A warrior doesn’t always have to win every battle. A warrior is not a loser but is a winner whether physically or in the heart. In life there are many people that survive life as a warrior. I say that because in my mind a warrior never dies. He may lose but if he is a true warrior than he never dies. A warrior usually overcomes a stuggle or many throughout his life. A warrior has a motivation in his life that keeps him fighting until he cant fight any more. Usually that stuggle is his motivation to keep fighting everyday to survive in life. In Bagger Vance Pressfield quotes about Junah “He was a Warrior. Purged of ego, disipline, focused, without fear or hope, living with every fiber of his essence in the present and only the present.” He is right. A warrior isnt scared of anything but has hope for everything. He never lives from the past but only in the present. He might use the past just for motivation but not to defeat him inside.

Over the 18 years I have been alive I am preparing myself to be a …show more content…
“You can put them on or walk out and start a new life for the better.”

I chose the better life until on December 7, 2010 when 4 of my friends were killed in a car crash. I started the bad life back up again because I felt like life was failing. Like I was failing. The struggles are what define a warrior. Every warrior has something that makes him or her a warrior. They go through a life that helps them build the physical and mental strength. A warrior has to begin the battle and fight through it in order to succeed.

Those were my struggles to help define the warrior in me. Those were my motivations to create who I am
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