Personal Narrative Analysis

The meaning of life is interpreted in many ways based upon an individual’s values.This may mean getting rich for some people or meeting a celebrity. For me, the true meaning of life is overcoming barriers that hinder success in order to experience as much as possible. Through my eighteen years of being alive, I have had to overcome many barriers in order to get where I am today. The most challenging of these was overcoming my anxiety disorder. It is very typical of someone to say, “I’m anxious.” Anxiety is natural and comes along the course of life periodically. It starts to become a problem when someone is living in constant fear of things as small as wondering if I’m going to get to class three minutes before the bell rings. This was me in my freshman year of high school. …show more content…
Private school, alone, was enough to trigger my anxiety. They held each student to an incredibly high expectation and would pounce on anyone who fell short of it. I always stayed out of trouble and ensured that I was respectable to the teachers. I knew that I was not going to be able to go high school with with my friends, as money was tight and they were all attending private schools. Both my sister and I enrolled to attend Eastern Technical High School, where we would be on our own for the first time in our lives. It was not an easy transition at all: I was always expecting the worst, was very shy, and had extremely low levels of self confidence. The public schooling system was much more laid back than where I previously attended. I would actually run to classes to avoid any risk of me being