Personal Narrative: Hurt People At School

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There are a lot of instances where I have been hurt. Sometimes I was hurt emotionally, and sometimes when I was hurt physically. But all of those times when I was hurt one way I was hurt the other way. I have been angered, tortured, bullied, and scorned, but all of those times I never felt pain. So many other people bring me down, pull me back up and throw me down again. I was afraid to tell anyone because they would not listen. The only people I could trust were my family, but definitely not anybody else. Some of the people at school are a nightmare to deal with, especially know-it-alls and immature people. These people I could not stand to be in the same area as them, and every time I heard their voices was poison to my emotion. I did not

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