Personal Narrative: The Diary Of Anne Frank

Though there are many significant questions people ask themselves every single day, there is one question that always reoccurs, how do we want to be remembered? There is a myriad of ways to be remembered, but choosing the things you want to be remembered by can be troubling. Anne utilizes her diary as a part of her life in numerous ways. How she used this diary was an important necessity she used to identify herself, but it also raises a question. “What do we use in life to identify ourselves?” The diary is basically Anne Frank’s best friend. When she is in the annex and is closed off the rest of the world, she does not have many people to talk to. Though she has family and Peter to talk to, there are some thoughts that she would rather
Though there are many things in life to express yourself with, I find myself wondering what the key things I will use to define myself with. Maybe it is a good thing I do not know what to define myself with. How I choose to show other what I am like is always different. I would consider myself to more of an introvert. I like having a fewer amount of friends compared to a lot. I prefer to stay at home with a couple friends than be at big events like sports. I like to read more than normal people do and I care way too much about anything and everything, which can be highly stressful at times. I used to keep a diary to keep the never ending thoughts under control, but I eventually lost interest after a year or so. Now, I would say I express myself through music, writing, and late night group chats conversations on Instagram, which is basically like a group therapy. The more I think about what I want others to remember about me, the more I think about how life is too short to sit around and think about what you want other to remember when you could be actually doing those things. The problem is that I have no idea what I want to pursue to do just that. I guess my goal in life would to be happy and to not think about what if I had done something. Really, I just want people to remember as a person that was never afraid to do something they wanted to do. Whatever it is I want to do, I just hope I am