Personal Narrative: Call Of Duty

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When most people think of someone that is important in their lives, they often conclude with their parents. And for most people that is very much true. Of course, for me, my parents have and always will be important, but there are still others I hold around that level. For me, one of the most important people in my daily life, is someone I have never been in the same room with. This statement may seem strange, but talking to someone for around eight years may due that. Now to understand how this unlikely friendship came about, one would have to go back to around 2007. I believe it was a weekend. I was home and I was passing some time by playing a little game known as Call of Duty, more specifically Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. About twenty…show more content…
And since I was just some random kid, they had no idea who I was, and I had no idea who they were. But I was told that these were a good group of guys. And shortly after a few games with them, I knew that to be the case. But the important person for this story had the gamer-tag of Rowland93. And since talking to someone and using numbers in a name is weird, so I just called him Rowland and I still do to this day. Back then, since we did not know each other, the nature of his name was unknown to me. But after a few days of playing together, I found out that his gamer-tag is his last name and his year of birth. Which was similar to mine, being twagner70. That being my first initial, last name, then football number. And shortly after that we introduced ourselves by our first name, his being Derek. But since we were calling each other by our gamer-tags for a few days at this point, and the fact that we did not know each other personally, we kept calling each other by our gamer-tags even to this day. And since they are for the most part just our last names, its not that…show more content…
But over these eight years we have always been there for one another in times of need. From everything to a bad day to relationship problems, we are always willing to talk to each other and I think it works out even better some times that we do not see each other. It is easier to talk to a little headset then someone starring at you in some circumstances. It feels like there is less judgment there. But for others I am sure its worse. But one thing I can take away from all my chats with my friend. I have learned to listen, and that translates to all my other relationships. And who knows with all of our various serious chats, who knows what influences I had on him that if I wasn't there would have brought

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