Personal Narrative: What Is Challenging

What is challenging? Does challenging yourself turn out to be a good thing? Most people in seventh grade challenge themselves or others. We might challenge ourselves because we don’t think we are smart enough or just want to be better at something. Sometimes challenges can take a toll on other people and yourself, yet some still strain themselves too much and this can make them stressed. The most challenging thing for me this year was for me to be thinking I am not good or smart enough. I thought I wasn’t good enough because I would doubt myself, I would think of all the things I wasn’t good at, and I would compare myself to others.
Why did I even doubt myself? It’s the week before school starts and I am ready to see what classes I would have, yet I am favoring one over the other. I see what class I …show more content…
Geometry, grammar, and poems are all the subjects I wasn’t good at. I would often think about the negatives and not the positives of my academic participation, but that would only make me feel worse. I didn’t focus on my strong suits like graphs, writing, and reading. Take an example like sports, were I would hold off on trying out for a team because I thought about the traits for that sport that I wasn’t good at. I didn’t think of the traits that would help me, only the ones that would bring me down. I didn’t try out for volleyball in seventh grade for the same reason I didn’t try to do basketball and track. The reasoning behind me not trying out is because I said to myself, “You’re not good enough. You’re not strong enough. You’re not tall enough. You’re not fast enough.” Every time I was going to try out for a sport I would always say that to myself to make me not try. The only sport I really felt comfortable was cheer and that was not going to make me want to practice. This eighth grade year I’m not going for cheer, I’m going for volleyball and I will never say those few words that I said to myself last year. Not anymore and not in the