Reflective Essay About My Life

Throughout my life I have fought and successfully moved on in situations that many people don’t even think of having to go through. For example, I fell in love with a boy (I know cliché) but I did and he changed my life and who I was. I thought he was the one and I did everything for him. I gave him parts of me that I, to be honest, wasn’t ready to give. He was something I never imagined loosing. Our relationship was perfect, or at least I thought it was until I found out there was another girl, who he denied and I of course believed him. We stayed together for four months then had a huge fight. That day he left me in a state of mind that I had never been in before. I was physically not okay, mentally not okay. I thought I couldn’t live without …show more content…
I know that these events have shaped me as not only a person but a writer. I believe that who you are as a writer depends on your circumstances and the things you’ve seen and been put through. In my case, my outlook on life has changed significantly causing the way I write to change as well. For instance, heartbreak. Not only from someone you saw as your other half, but from family members. These situations have a huge impact on you even if you don’t see it. I myself love to write my own music that I sing and over the years as I’ve grown as a person, the lyrics have gotten deeper and more personal. The songs acted as therapy for me and I would go home after a hard day and just write until I had nothing else left to say. Whenever things would get crazy and I needed to tell someone about my life that someone ended up really not being anyone but my pencil and my paper in my …show more content…
Causing me to feel out of place and judged, unlocking feelings that I would write on paper. I was more of what you would call a rebel in high school and that got me into a lot of trouble. I was in many places I should never be in and that most people shouldn’t be in, seeing things no teenager should see or go through. I think I was forced to mature and grow up and increase what I knew faster than that of others because of the knowledge I had accidentally already gained. I ended up being on social media and direct messaging people when they would post things that made me worry about their well being and things I knew I could possibly give some insight on. This gave me writing practice not only on how to talk to others but with how to write in order to enlighten someones day or just be a person who they could go to and I pretty much would counsel them on their problems and it would make me in turn feel happier through making them happy. It made me grow a great amount as a writer because I saw so much purpose in sharing what usually sat in my mind building up and