Personal Narrative: My First Year In High School

It was the beginning of 9th grade and the beginning of my first year in high school. It started out good but then I started skipping. It wasn’t long before skipping just a class turned into skipping all day long. I was doing things I wasn’t supposed to be doing and I had the I don’t care mentality and I didn’t care about my grades. I was more worried about having fun and being bad then being a good student and going to class. But then the next year when I was supposed to be a 10th grader I was a 9 and a half and that’s when I really knew that I made a huge mistake and needed to get my life together because you see when your skipping and doing whatever it is you want to do then you get stuck in this way of doing what you want instead of doing what …show more content…
It was all about the spur of the moment at what I was getting out of all this. What I mean all the bad things I was doing was I was smoking weed and cigs and I had been struggling with self-harm for several years now. I had got suspended that year because my mom found out what exactly was going on and she took me up to the school and I got suspended for a whole week. But that was only the beginning I went through several problems by going behind my mom’s back and smoking when they weren’t home and just doing things I shouldn’t be doing. But through the summer I started to realize that all the mistakes I made that year in school and outside of school had caused no one but myself damage I had restrictions and I wasn’t allowed to go hang out with people but what I did really understand was once I quit doing all those bad things I was opened to a brand new perspective and was able to focus more on the things I needed than on just the things wanted. I learned so much from the mistakes that I made that I was able to become a better person Instead of reaching for a cig when I get stressed I sit down and I paint paintings and I