Personal Narrative: My Experience At Colleg College

I was a top player on all of my sports teams, academically outstanding, with a social life just like any other teenage girl. Entering senior year of high school, I knew graduation was swiftly approaching and it felt like life was happening so fast. Soon, I was applying to colleges and anxiously waiting to hear back. I can still remember the day I chose to attend Montclair State University, with excellent political science and jurisprudence programs, it was the perfect school for me. I remember thinking to myself that life seemed perfect, and it pretty much was; until I neared the end of senior year. I suppose the real unhappiness began shortly before high school graduation. I was in an abusive relationship, not in the physical sense but psychologically. I was young, it was my first “real” relationship, and my biggest regret is not realizing the impact it was having on me in that moment. I stopped caring about everything, including myself. Mentally, I was depressed and angry. Physically, I gained seventy pounds and the person I became was not the same girl I always was. …show more content…
As my family waved goodbye and left I held back tears, not only because I was sad, but mostly because I was scared. My recent weight gain left me painfully insecure, which made it very hard to make friends. I never wanted to go out or be around people. I isolated myself from everyone, even the people who cared the most about me. I was ashamed of myself and what my life had become. I had no idea who I was anymore, but one thing I did know, was that I was the unhappiest person I knew at that