Personal Narrative: My Best Advice From High School

Throughout my entire life, I have encountered, had conversations with, and have been given advice by many great people. The best advice given to me although was by my dad when I was in the tenth grade, be yourself. I was being bullied in school because I was not like everyone else. I didn't skip class with the "cool kids", talk disrespectfully to any adults, I was smaller than all of the other freshman and football players, and I was never getting into trouble like everyone else. After my entire freshman year of being bullied, I brought it upon myself in the tenth grade to try and change some things about myself. I started trying to fit in with what had seemed to be the popular kids. All of my attempts to try and fit in failed, and if anything …show more content…
After figuring out about the situation from them, he sat me down and demanded that I explain everything that was going on. He didnt fuss at me because he understood the sensitivity of the subject. "The reason you don't fit in son, is because youre not the same as them" he explained. "you were raised differently and you wont fit in with them because of that". At the end of the conversation, he gave me the advice that would carry me throughout the rest of high school: "Just be yourself Josh and everything else will fall in place." Fortunately, my parents understood the struggle of having to deal with bullying and decided to take me out of Wilkinson County. Being the Christian family that we are, they decided to enroll me into the Christian based school that I currently attend by the name of John Milledge Academy. Here I was placed in an environment conducive for learning, was accepted for being myself, helped lead my football team to a state championship, and more importantly, academically, I have went from barely passing classes to becoming an honor student. Through God's blessings and my dad's advice, I have become a better