As I mentioned before, when I was a kid I struggled with making new friends. I was way too shy to talk to other kids and felt I had no good reason to get to know my classmates. However, once I joined cross country I didn't have much of a choice. I bonded a lot with most of the kids that I now shared a team with and that I spent so much time with. This got me far more socially involved and really improved my social life in so many ways.…
and I just don’t really talk to new people unless I am comfortable around…
Everybody changes once they enter high school. One of the ways I have changed once I entered high school was my personality I am not afraid to say what's in my mind. I have also changed the way I dress and look. My personality has changed because before I was in high school and I was in middle school I use to be very shy and quiet.…
Now I know not everybody is going to like the exact same things as me and vice versa, but when you have common ground it is a lot easier to talk to them. There are things that I try to avoid in people and what they do for example; drinking alcohol, using drugs, and premarital sex. Almost everybody does something bad but these three things to me seem like they don’t end very good and may make your life a lot harder on you. If I hear one of my assumed friends is doing one of these things stated above it makes me so mad I just quit talking to them. I know that is a bit too much…
“H-Hi… M-my n-name is…” I would constantly stutter like this when introducing myself on the first day of school every year in high school until 12th grade. This was the result of having terrible self-confidence and being introverted. I became introverted due to my move from Indiana to Alabama. I still have a love and hate relationship with this move. I love it for the fact that it showed to not take friends for granted.…
For a long time I believed that as I grew up, I would randomly gain the ability to just talk to everyone I see about anything and everything, and that being reserved was a flaw I’d need to fix. I believed that making friends came before being confident, and that if I forced myself to reject my quietness, confidence would come along…
I was in a strange new environment with diverse people all around me. I was ten years old, and my family and I had just arrived in America to allow me to live a life full of opportunity; everything seemed very overwhelming. My dad announced, “This is our new home now,” and I felt as if the walls were closing in on me. I could not possibly imagine living in a foreign country where I might be made to feel alienated.…
I know a lot of people that have been through their crucible or "severe trial" which has forced them to change, and look at things differently in life. In this essay I’m going to be writing about my crucible and how it affected me. So the severe trial that I’ve been through in my life happened last year during the school year, a month and a half before summer started. The whole eighth grade class was excited because we were going to go roller skating as a school field trip. I was especially excited because I had never been roller skating before and all my friends had told me that it was really fun.…
When someone says "Personal Hero," who do you think of? You would probably think of your mom or your dad, or maybe even your grandparents. I thought of my friend, Gabe. I definitely could have chosen to write about my mother or father, but Gabe showed up right when I needed a friend. Before he came, I didn't have many friends at all, as I didn't fit in very well with all of my other classmates.…
Will they like me? Will they think I look nice? Will they want to be my friend? What if they hate me? These questions and more kept spinning around in my head as I got ready to visit my new school and meet my new classmates.…
I believe in change. As defined by the webster dictionary change is to become different. And although simple and not very original I really love this definition because as you change you’re becoming different and you're becoming unique you’re becoming who you are. Change is what kicks us in the ass and makes us try something new. The four defining changes in my life were moving to New York, traveling to costa rica, switching high schools and now coming to SMU.…
I hate people saying I’m shy. I don’t like public speaking, that’s so annoying. I like to talk with my friends, but that doesn’t mean I like to speak in front of all the people that I don’t know. Actually, people who say I’m shy are right because I don’t talk to strangers. I’m tired of hearing and answering those stupid questions and advices, like “why don’t you talk?” or “don’t be shy.”…
I don’t feel obligated to have someone with me all the time. I feel comfortable with having different interests than my friends. One of my favorite classes in Choir and none of my friends take that class, but it’s okay because that’s what interests me. I’ve also learned that it’s okay to have friends that aren’t in the same group.…
The most positive experience which has made me the person I am today started in the summer after my freshman year of high school. No matter how I try to break down this turning point in my life unravels into a string of events which could fill a book. I had been raised to accept people for who they are and not judge them on the way they appear. I never completely practiced these beliefs mainly due to ignorance of the moral. I would occasionally act stuck up depending on the company present, always changing my pretense to everyone else’s agenda.…
These friends are similar in age to you and around you most of the time. As you get older your peer groups help influence you more. I was homeschooled from first grade to sixth grade, so I really didn’t have any interaction with my peer groups. Only in the fall and spring when I played soccer, I sometimes felt like the odd one out because I was never kept update on all the new trends and I really didn’t socialize with kids my age very often. Once I hit sixth grade the influence started happening, going into my sixth grade year my style was horrible compared to everyone else’s, I didn’t know how to make friends, and I didn’t have any of the technology that everyone had.…