Personal Narrative: My Dad Makes Me Who I Am

I am blessed to know one of the wisest people I have in my life, who guides, who teaches, and who supports me as I grow older. When it comes to what is right and what is wrong, my father has the answer, and the advice I receive has formed me into the personality we see today. I am a golfer who has taken after her dad, learning what we call “the basics” and learning the swing mechanics from the professionals we see performing to the best of their ability. My dad and I strive to perfect and copy this ability together, and learning it is tougher than what most perceive it to be. Golf is the hardest sport on the planet, but the easiest at the same time. The swing is so simple and broken down it becomes difficult to reach a level above all others, and we call the few percentage of people to do that the pros. I have worked on this with my dad for some time now, years, to break every little detail to the core in allowing myself to be the “few percent.” Because the difficulty outperforms any other sport, getting the hang of it will take time, and just understanding how everything works can be overwhelming. I often feel …show more content…
I cannot argue with a wise, brilliant remark such as this, in a sense having a reverse psychological effect on me. Correspondingly, I will work harder for not only myself, but for my dad as well.
Under those circumstances, I see a relative and similar comparison between the character Nick in The Great Gatsby, and myself. We have both collected aid from our fathers, and from the beginning of the book, Nick says, “In my younger and more vulnerable years, my father gave me a piece of advice that I have been turning over in my head ever since.” As I am still in my “vulnerable years,” I see this connection to me and the character, and how our lives are being shaped from these enlightened spoken