Personal Narrative: My Sister Changed My Life

When my sister lost her colon, it changed me,for what seemed to be, for the worst. From the time I was born to when I started high school, my relationship with her had meant more to me than life itself. But the sicker she got, the more stress it put on my family emotionally, physically, and financially.
It started back in middle school, where I learned that she wanted more for me than just being an average student, whose set on going to my grandmother’s house everyday after school and watching the Simpsons and Family Guy on channel 6. She saw something more in me that my mother never noticed. And with her expectations of me, I carried myself through middle school and 3 years of high school with the ambitious goal of being half as intelligent and strong as she is.
However when she got sick, it seemed as if our family would travel through a dark abyss full of sorrow, stress, and disappointment. Sherley, my sister, never
Even though I have a 92.4 average, I thought the best I could do with my situation was go to a community college for a couple of years and transfer. I couldn’t rely on a sports scholarship because I could never meet the demands of the sports I played without a family support system; It was all about priorities, and my sister’s health was before my participation in high school sports. So I had to make a decision. Was I going to let my sister’s situation dictate how I spend the next four years of my life, or was I going to push through all my doubts and strive to go to a school that befitted a person like me, and not go for anything less? At the start of my senior year I chose the second one, I sat down with my parents to let them know where I stood in regards the going to college; They said they didn’t expect me to get to any type of four year education that was beneath me, because they know how capable I