Personal Narrative: My Lie

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I’m not one to lie; that’s not who I am. I’m not going to say that I am the best person that has ever existed. Why? Because it would be a lie. I do, however, have some characteristics of myself that are positive. Clearly, the first is being truthful.
The last four months of my life have been extremely testing and have made me hate myself as a person. Mostly due to what other people have said about me. Most of their allegations were correct.
My sophomore year I lost who I was. I became, I don’t know how to describe me as other that: a bad person. I didn’t like who I was but I didn’t realize the true pain I caused until I lost everything I had. I lost my boyfriend and I lost all but one friend I had. The worst part was that I deserved it. It’s
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It was because I needed to change. In the past few weeks I have been able to do, something even I would even have called the impossible, I forgave everyone. I forgave those that lied to me, on various occasion, I forgave those that broke every promise they ever made to me, I forgave those that went on multiple rant sessions about how much they hated me, although I’m still not completely sure what I did to make them hate me so much. I forgave everyone. I apologize to all of them. I blame everything that happened on myself. I hate myself for it but, now I have tried to rekindle friendships that I lost. I am trying my best to stay positive and talk to them and be …show more content…
There was a student in my chemistry class last year that no one liked. So, I talked to him, I was the only one who did other than the fact to engage in arguments. I continue to talk and text him because I know no one else will. I now appreciate being someone in his life more because he, like I, is in a point in his life where there is no one. I am currently overcoming that hurdle but he is not yet at that point and I know what it feels like to be there. In that hole of being alone all the time because no one wants to be near you, because no one likes you.
As L. Ron Hubbard said “Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.” Although I am not happy about everything that has happened in my life I do not wish to change it. I have accepted the mistakes I have made and have been, and will continue to, learn from them. My future is mine and I have big plans for

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