Composition Test (Personal Recount)
Question 1: An important decision that severely affected your life.
Question 2: An experience that left you seriously disillusioned.
“No… Why… Why must this happen to me? Why?” I muttered discontentedly.
Unmistakable hurt flickered in the dark green of my eyes. This time I recalled something and the scenes were flashing through my mind. I could not maintain my usual calm composure anymore. At that point of time, a steady downpour of tears came relentlessly as I began to cry from my deep heart core. I could only remember that I really made a decision to listen to him…
I, a singular fifteen-year-old boy, who was being very lazy and loved smoking. Although my parents tried their best to give me their pieces of advice, I ignored all of them. I refused to listen to them and even felt them annoying sometimes.
In the afternoon, 21st January 2007, rain was pouring down relentlessly. Thunder rumbled and pulsed through air as a blot of lightning flashed through the sky. A quarrel happened between one of my dearest friend, Eric and me. Actually, he was trying to advise me not to being lazy that day. He even tried to advise me to quit smoking as what my parents always did to me. I tried to ignore him but his advice really nettled me.
My temper simmered for a few minutes, finally boiled furiously over the top in a ranting that frightened him. I glanced at him angrily, reprimanded him with a stentorian voice, “Could you please just shut your mouth up? Can’t you just be quiet and return to where you supposed to be?”
At that point of moment, I could detect a tinge of disappointment through his eyes. Without saying any single words, he scurried away, having struck the incisive blow from me. Drops of tear fell down from his both eyes.
Suddenly, I thought in silence, “Am doing something wrong? Am I too excessive? Did my words truly hurt him a lot without realizing? Should I apologize to him? Can we still be friends?” All of those came into my mind.
It is incontrovertible for me to say that I really scolded him. I would really like to apologize to him in sincere. I would like to bury the hatchet between us. However, I was in cryptic as I did not have such a valor to do so. Who knew that I was actually giving my last chance to amend my mistake on him because he was going to migrate to the other countries.
“No… Why… Why must this happen to me? Why?” I muttered discontentedly.
I came to be stunned when I heard of the news that he had left the country from my friends. They handed a letter to me which was written by Eric. I went away and sat at a corner side, starting to read through the letter. In his letter, he apologized to me and he hoped that I would forgive him. He also mentioned that he would not be coming back again and he wished me to have a change of myself by quit smoking and becoming more hardworking. He even hoped that the broken glass marble can be repaired.
I really aspired to have an opportunity to apologize to him personally. To amend my mistake, I could only make a decision to listen to his advice which would severely affect my life, becoming someone who are successful and able to contribute to this modernized world in the future.