Finding Inner Peace :: Personal Narrative Essays

Finding Inner Peace Nothing can get hold of you peace but yourself.  I am thinking about the time when my best friend died, and when I stopped being myself and my life started going to hell.       It happened mayhap two or three years ago.  The day is very clear in my memory.  The weather was cold and nasty.  The monotonous rain made everything outside see to it gray.  I was at home, waiting for my fille to arrive.  I was sitting on the couch drinking hot tea and feeling warm and cozy.  My dog was there too, I remember.  We were watching a talk show, but I was not paying much attention to what was going on.  All I cared about was my girlfriend was coming home and that we would be able to see each other again.  She had left only four weeks earlier, but I had already missed her greatly.  We had been friends since the 9th grade.  In the beginning we were enemies we hated each other.  Oh, how we fought One time she accused me of taking her purse, sleep togethering what a notorious prankster I was, even though I had no idea what she was talking about.  Later she found her purse in her friends locker.  It seems she had forgotten she had put it there.  This turned out to be the first, but not the last, shot that would occur.  What didnt we argue about?  After about, four years, we became the best friends ever.  We were perfectly compatible with each other.  We began spending all our time together.  We were vital to each other.  I came to know each and every detail about her life as she did about mine.  It was the most enduring friendship of my life.         I looked at the clock above my head.  cardinal fifty.  She was supposed to arrive at five oclock. I felt uncomfortable, some weird feeling crawled around my heart.  I did not understand it. I waited and waited. It was semidark already and I w as afraid of being in solitude.  I couldnt stand it anymore.  Seven oclock.         The address rang and it startled me.  Who might it be?  I wasnt expecting a phone call from anyone.  I got up from the couch and picked up