Helen Keller's The Miracle Worker

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‘The Miracle Worker’ Essay. Every single person you know experiences some sort of challenge every single day of their life. It is completely inevitable and you can’t live a life with a free pass from personal struggles! Like many other I have many challenges of my own. The challenge I want to tell you about, and I think relates me to Helen Keller is that I can not express my feelings when I talk to people. The reason I say this relates me to her is because all my life people have been trying to get through to me to see how I’m feeling. I have never been able to tell them. All Helen’s life, people have been trying to get through to her to communicate with her. Everyone around her is trying to break that communication barrier! I think I relate …show more content…
I have never been able to openly express my feelings to anybody my entire life, and I don’t know why. Since a very, very young age, Helen hasn’t been able to communicate her emotions well, or even communicate for that matter. Over time she slowly starts to develop those skills and stars to be able to be understood, and people would know how she was feelings! I also started to acquire some skills to help me be more comfortable talking about how I am feeling.

I am currently seeing a therapist to help with my struggles to express my feelings and it is really helping me! I’ve been getting better at talking to people whilst also practicing my ability to express myself. I feel as if it has changed me and, and the people around me, because now I don’t have that weight on my shoulders of all of these things I have to worry about because I can confide in somebody and let go of all those things. It makes it a lot better for the people around me because I’m not as angry or irritated anymore. They know how I am feeling and know what and what not to say around me. Life is now easier because I don’t need to worry about people wondering what’s going on with me anymore. Before I just ignored everyone who would want to talk about my feelings, but now I am open to

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