Personal Narrative: The Great Outdoors

The Great Outdoors Everyone has their own community or organization for which they belong to. Within that community you tend to find who you are and what you are about. For me I found my identity in being an outdoors man. Being an outdoors man at my young age seems to be rare at this day, but that doesn’t prevent me from doing something I love and appreciate. Growing up with my family full of avid outdoors men helped influence me and only made my identity stronger. At my high school I found a few other people that showed my same interests. By being apart of archery and shotgun club I came to feel like I belonged to a special community. When I go hunting at my cottage in Northern Michigan I do not just plan on harvesting an animal; I plan
on just relaxing and listening to the sounds of nature. I fit very well in this community and surrounding myself with people who share the same interest in the outdoors is very important to me. Nevertheless, the special bond between my family has always been the outdoors and hunting. In conclusion, my interest in hunting and being an outdoors man has always been very important to me. My family, being full of outdoors men, showed a great influence on my life. I have always associated the outdoors with family and friends and hope my future descendants will do the same as well because being apart of a community of the outdoors has made me feel at ease and gives me a significant purpose within.