Personal Narrative: My 5th Grade I

When you are a kid, you don’t honestly know what to do in some situations. When I was young I never genuinely did my own anything. I didn’t know what to do, or how to change. I wasn’t truly ever myself when I was with other people besides my family. I followed the crowd, I wanted to follow. When I was young, I never thought I would cope with this situation. I remember the transition from fifth grade in sixth grade. I remember reading and watching movies about kids in school and how they were going to overcome the conflict that was upon them. However, I hadn’t believed any of the solutions that the characters came up with. In fifth grade I was this kid with only three or four close friends and then going into sixth grade with nearly one hundred …show more content…
“But, you shouldn’t be letting that control what you do”. After hearing this, I went into school the next day with an open attitude. I started conversations with people that I barely knew. I went about my day at school as if I wear at home. I remember that day being one of my favorite school days. After that day, school was more enjoyable. I like seeing the people and talking to kids about their day and what they’ve done. I felt great about myself that day, and every other day after that.Pretty soon I didn’t even notice what people thought of me. More people were coming up and being friendly and this brought up my self esteem greatly. At the end of the year I found myself wanting to go back to school because then I would be able to see all my new friends. Again, I watched another movie about this kid struggling to gain friends in middle school, however the solution was the same as the one I had. I realized that all those movies and books gave great advice when you have a problem without a solution. I realized that the saying just be yourself and people will like you is true after all. And because I have been myself, my problem has been