Communication: A Class That Changed My Life

I have had a rough life. I have been through a lot and I am ready to accept what has happened in the past. The idiots who called me names are gone. There is nothing I could gain from either yelling at them or beating the living day lights out of them. There were times that there were rumors that were spread about me like me being gay or not being able to get a girlfriend. Even though those rumors were false, I thought at the time everyone hated me and so I shut down emotionally. After that painful last year at middle school, I thought I could not believe in anyone anymore. However, to my surprise, I finally found hope in a different place.

That shining light of hope came in the friends that I found in christopher dock. Before I went to Dock, I thought I was a poor young man. A poor young man tired of the …show more content…
When he called me a friend, I did not know how to respond as has been so long since someone called me a friend. One class that changed my cynical views on friendship was conflict resolution. That class did introduce me to some of the views that some of my friends had and that class introduced me to one of my closest friends. When I met her, I expected her to act cold and distant around me but instead she did the opposite of what I expected. When I acted either awkward or dorky around her, she either laughed at my anxiety and told me it was fine or calmed me down to a degree. Once she showed those acts of kindness, I began to care for her a lot. What she did for me at the time was unbelievable. The main reason I could not comprehend that fact was that the girls at my old school either treated me like garbage or ignored me. Unlike the girls at my old school, she and a few other girls that I have befriended treated me with kindness and respect. Probably the best memory in that class was when I had to present my