“Young women are bombarded by images of perfection, which no human being can really achieve.” This was quoted by Emma Watson as she was trying to encourage young ladies to feel good about themselves. It basically sums up everything I didn’t have the courage to do for quite some time. The year 2010 was really tough for me. It was the year that not only changed my perspective of a normal life, but of how I saw myself as a person.
I started my sixth grade year like any other eleven year old did. New school year. New classes, faces, and teachers. I was always that quiet, shy, person. I had good grades, perfect attendance, and an average social life. For the first weeks of school, I had already gotten used to my classes, as well as making new friends. …show more content…
After 3 months of eating healthy, as soon as the memories came back, it hit me the hardest. At the time, I thought that was my only choice. I started to be obsessive over my appearance, and that 's when I sucked it all in. Pain, sadness, anger... it was all bottled up inside me. I felt as if I was on a breakdown. I had so much negativity inside me, so much stress, so much anxiety, and so much sorrow. The times I would come home from school, I would lie on my couch, and fall asleep. I was so malnourished, that I would sleep mainly in the day and became quite alert at night. I wouldn 't have a normal life. As if I was getting controlled.
On January of my sophomore year, I had already met a special person that would change my life. Due to my lack of nutrients, I started to get bruises on my body. Trying hard to hide them, he somehow noticed them. He made me realize that I wouldn 't want to live my life the way I was. I knew that if I ever got to spend time with his siblings, I wouldn 't want them to experience what I was going through or even them to follow those hurtful steps. I wanted to prove not only to him, but to myself, that I wasn’t going to keep doing that. He made me feel special, pretty, but most importantly…he made me feel worth
I started my sixth grade year like any other eleven year old did. New school year. New classes, faces, and teachers. I was always that quiet, shy, person. I had good grades, perfect attendance, and an average social life. For the first weeks of school, I had already gotten used to my classes, as well as making new friends. …show more content…
After 3 months of eating healthy, as soon as the memories came back, it hit me the hardest. At the time, I thought that was my only choice. I started to be obsessive over my appearance, and that 's when I sucked it all in. Pain, sadness, anger... it was all bottled up inside me. I felt as if I was on a breakdown. I had so much negativity inside me, so much stress, so much anxiety, and so much sorrow. The times I would come home from school, I would lie on my couch, and fall asleep. I was so malnourished, that I would sleep mainly in the day and became quite alert at night. I wouldn 't have a normal life. As if I was getting controlled.
On January of my sophomore year, I had already met a special person that would change my life. Due to my lack of nutrients, I started to get bruises on my body. Trying hard to hide them, he somehow noticed them. He made me realize that I wouldn 't want to live my life the way I was. I knew that if I ever got to spend time with his siblings, I wouldn 't want them to experience what I was going through or even them to follow those hurtful steps. I wanted to prove not only to him, but to myself, that I wasn’t going to keep doing that. He made me feel special, pretty, but most importantly…he made me feel worth