Personal Narrative Essay

I believe that I am not the same person I was a year ago. A year ago I was timid, shy, and hardly ever stood up for myself in most scenarios. Now I have become more open to trying new things. I use to hate meeting new people, but now I'm almost eager to meet someone new or make a new friend. I no longer allow people to speak for me, I have my own voice and I speak up for myself. Five years ago I was 14, and I have definitely grown a lot since then. I'm the same five years ago regarding my looks, my face never seems to change. When referring to me as a whole now compared to five years ago I would say I'm different in the sense that I am much stronger than I was then. Back then I struggled badly with being bullied, and not being able to accept …show more content…
I had became at peace with myself. They started treating me differently by not wanting to hang out with me anymore if I didn't give in to certain things. Friends I thought I had began to turn their backs and talk about me. The person who treated me the most different was this girl name Kandys. She was known as the girl everyone was threatened by. I think she treated me the most different because she liked having control over everybody and for a long time had me under the same spell. She realized that I had broken from that and was becoming my own person, more focused on school and graduating, and communicating with people outside of her social group. She hated …show more content…
We got to the point where we were calling each others sisters, because it felt as if we actually were. Just recently I began to realize a new side of her and my perception changed in a negative way. I realized that she was really self-centered and ego-centric. She thought the world revolved around her and that nobody was better looking or could "compete" with her as she would say. In other words she was the complete opposite of the person I was and because I didn't get to know her on a personal level I failed to notice this part of her