Personal Narrative: A Woman As A Role Model

Independent is the best way to describe my grandma Kollette’s personality: she is strong and sure of herself. When she was married to my grandpa, she had something horrible happen to her: her husband of thirteen years revealed that he was gay and left her and their four kids to be with a man. This is a situation that most women would not be able to come back from. He left her with total responsibility and she took life by the reigns, held on tight, and she did it well. Kollette is an example of what I call a “woman”. There is a moment in a girl’s life when a female becomes a woman and it is not because her breasts start to grow, she has her first boyfriend or she gets her period. She becomes a woman when she is thought of as being independent, …show more content…
One woman who this applies to is one of my role models, my personal trainer Michelle. She used to weigh over two hundred pounds at only five feet tall and now she is thirteen percent body fat and competes in bikini competitions. She told me that when she was a teenager, she would get made fun of and she was extremely self-conscious of her looks. Her new lifestyle seemed silly to her family and friends, but once she focused on herself and learned to ignore the negativity around her, she was able to continue her fitness journey with confidence. She tells me that she is also a lot more confident now and less intimidated by the world. She inspires me to believe that there are no shortcuts and that you have to put in work to get results in every circumstance. A woman needs to be ambitious because a lot of females don’t think they need to work for what they want, but that’s the difference between types of females. I was watching a documentary on Netflix the other day called “The Hunting Ground,” which is about girls in college standing up for sexual assault and how they get harassed for protesting by other students and even by the school. The school doesn’t want people to know that there are girls getting raped on their college campus, so they punish the women for speaking out. One of the girls who were sexually assaulted committed suicide because no one would believe her and the school was making her feel like it was her fault. The females who were protesting against the school are my definition of women because they were standing up for themselves and they were ambitious to make a difference in the school. The girl who committed suicide is my opinion of a female who isn’t a woman yet because she let a bad situation make her entirely too weak. A woman can be weak, but she shouldn’t let it go as far as taking her life because she needs to be