Personal Narrative: The Enlightened Travel
The Enlightened Travel
Life is a journey of the unknown. There have been many points in my life were I can say how did I get here, so with that being said let me begin where I think I really started identifying with the person who I am now and what lead my down that path. While there were many different life changing situations that happened in my childhood, the most important one that helped shaped who I am today was my mother and father’s decision to move to Virginia from New York. There were a couple different reasons to why, such as, one my dad was ill and another was we needed a place to live as New York was not a proper area to grow as a family. Now for a seventeen-year-old young man from Brooklyn, New York that spent his will childhood in the city and having to move Hampton, Virginia was a huge challenge. It was a new state, a completely different type of lifestyle, a new society. I became a city boy lost in a suburban country life.
As you might be wondering why would a transition like that be rough. Well let me elaborate more. In the city life that I came from and knew …show more content…
It’s really about seeking out the unknown and learning about life in general not limiting yourself to a bubble. As I started to understand Virginia more and how all walks of life operates not just a small society. I found myself wanting and yearning for more knowledge about people and the community that they life live in. That yearning sensation then embarked me on my next travel to the state of Tennessee where I evolved even more as all cultures live, think, and develop differently no matter if they black or white are whatever nationality they are. With that desire in my body I then thought to brighten my horizon and opportunities and I decided to join the United States Navy to travel the World, finding new colleagues, experiences and challenges while completing the journey of finding myself
Life is a journey of the unknown. There have been many points in my life were I can say how did I get here, so with that being said let me begin where I think I really started identifying with the person who I am now and what lead my down that path. While there were many different life changing situations that happened in my childhood, the most important one that helped shaped who I am today was my mother and father’s decision to move to Virginia from New York. There were a couple different reasons to why, such as, one my dad was ill and another was we needed a place to live as New York was not a proper area to grow as a family. Now for a seventeen-year-old young man from Brooklyn, New York that spent his will childhood in the city and having to move Hampton, Virginia was a huge challenge. It was a new state, a completely different type of lifestyle, a new society. I became a city boy lost in a suburban country life.
As you might be wondering why would a transition like that be rough. Well let me elaborate more. In the city life that I came from and knew …show more content…
It’s really about seeking out the unknown and learning about life in general not limiting yourself to a bubble. As I started to understand Virginia more and how all walks of life operates not just a small society. I found myself wanting and yearning for more knowledge about people and the community that they life live in. That yearning sensation then embarked me on my next travel to the state of Tennessee where I evolved even more as all cultures live, think, and develop differently no matter if they black or white are whatever nationality they are. With that desire in my body I then thought to brighten my horizon and opportunities and I decided to join the United States Navy to travel the World, finding new colleagues, experiences and challenges while completing the journey of finding myself