Personal Narrative: I Believe In Myself

Improved Essays
I’m going to start off by saying that I wasn’t a very logical kid in high school. I tried so hard to be someone I wasn’t. You defiantly can’t change the past, or even predict the future. But, you can control what you have right now.

My grades in school started to get very bad. Because I wanted that I don’t care about school vibe to come off. I eventually failed every single one of my classes freshmen year of high school. The worst part was that I was a completely different person to my parents and family. We all went to church and I was there perfect little girl. They couldn’t understand why I was failing all my classes. I was really just trying to fit in somewhere. I read somewhere that you have to find yourself and who you really were.
…show more content…
Believe in myself? Me? The not so confident freshmen that falling all of her classes and follows the norm of others? But you know what, I thought he actually right why should …show more content…
Look where this man is and has been. He talked about traveling the world with his instrument and how he keeps coming back home.

The rest of my day I couldn’t keep his words out of my head. " believe in yourself" and "believe in that bigger picture of life" those word ill never forget.

Sophomore year eventually came around and I was still hanging out with the same people but I was slowly learning how t grown and become my own self. Throughout high school I learned to just not try so hard and focus on what’s really important.

I was always so worried about making new friend and finding a boyfriend and having a cool life. But in reality none of that happens in high school all of the cool kids were actually depressed too weren’t they? Weren’t we all just depressed unhappy teenagers? I hate how my parents always said that high school is supposed to be the happiest time of my life. Right where I am now seems way better than were I was mentally in high school. I have a job that helped me find my boyfriend who is amazing. We all need to stop looking and start living. Stop worrying about others it really doses change our

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    As high school progressed, so did my GPA and the rigor of the courses I was taking. I set aside what I could not control and focused on what I could. With the help of some incredible teachers, my passion for science blossomed and my drive to get good grades, take challenging courses, and explore my passion for science grew. It was an honest passion interest and love for learning, not something forced upon me by my parents or my school. I think for many high school students their schedule and classes become something that will make their parents happy or look good on college transcripts, but it is something so much more for me.…

    • 764 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Starting high school is an overwhelming feeling as it’s the last four years of schooling where it was time to look at my strengths and weaknesses in order not to fail. I never really thought that hanging out with friends would change my focus on school. Although I had every intention to pass all my classes, peer pressure got to me to where school wasn’t important anymore. I wasn’t an A straight student nor was I good at sports, but I never intended to fail any courses. Even though I didn’t pass all my classes, it was the fact that when I failed them, it was my parent’s disappointment where I truly felt like a failure.…

    • 521 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I know I am a workaholic and I am trying to get away from this I am learning to delegate and put my foot down, especially saying “No”. I know I have always felt satisfied when I kept doing more and endlessly tiring myself. I know I have been encouraged by my own self to be me, to be straight with people and with my own self; my own wants and feelings rather than crooked and covert. In this manner I am learning to understand what I want and possibly how to get it.…

    • 178 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    When I think about the boy who I was growing up, the young adult I am today, and the man I plan to be in the forthcoming years, one aspect of my life stands out to me far more radiantly than anything else: my culture, my skin, my identity as a Bangladeshi-American. There aren't many clubs or organization for Bangladeshi Americans such as myself. Make no mistake, there are certainly events for Bangladeshis living in the United states, many that I have attended due to various entreaties from my parents. These are event where the only language spoken is one that I barely speak (Bengali), the only music conversed about is that which I don't listen to or understand, and the only events discussed happen in another country that I have spent only a…

    • 646 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Noor Al-Maadeed “Being judged by others” this personal piece that I shared, describes a past event happened during high school years. I learned how to overcome this negative experience to positive thing that helped shape my character turn into the confident woman I am today. The process of revising this piece of writing is on of the hardest because it is difficult for me to express my feelings about a place that is filled with negativity. In addition, I want to catch the reader’s attention and make them engaged with the story.…

    • 779 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I am someone who smiles Someone always telling jokes to make sure no one thinks something is wrong So no one suspects a thing when they see my smile I am someone who fixes the feelings of those whose hearts are shattering like pieces of glass I am someone who loves to dress up and wear makeup so no one sees how truly I am From the bags from staying up at night to the red from crying, both under the concealer Tears behind my eyeshadow-covered eyelids Cracks underneath my red lipstick And the pain within the mouth that contains whitened teeth…

    • 845 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    At the start of high school, my family was more separated than ever, and being that my dad is in the military it never got better. Thus, I was forced to do what every young man was supposed to do, man up and get thru the day, week, and year. I would cope with my unfortunate life at home by going to the library every day which caused me to excel in high school but had created a void in my life, making me into an anti-social kid who was naïve to the outside world. As I hit senior year of high school everything in my life seemed to fall apart and the only safe places I had were the gym and library at the time. I had no goal set in mind going their other than being there for myself looking back to those days.…

    • 1001 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Since my 9th grade year (once I moved back to South Carolina in Columbia) to this current day I have struggled at school, at home, and with myself. I always had problems with teachers and grades and now I can finally admit that truth, I have gone through so much I could make you laugh, cry, be mad, be sad, and be happy all at once. I use to have a bad attitude and be mad at the world because of the type of person I was, I knew that I was lazy, had an attitude, a bad temper, and I did not care about anyone’s feelings, I was always angry and I couldn’t take any constructive criticism without feeling offended if I knew it would save a life. At one point in my 9th grade year I was attempting to try to help myself until my brother was shot, it affected me in and outside of school.…

    • 731 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Throughout the majority of my life, I was self-conscious and constantly worried about how I was perceived by others. As a child, I had always felt slightly out of place among my peers. I was just a little too quirky to fit into any of the groups at my school and I was too shy to force my way into one. I could not exactly understand what made me so different from my classmates and I desired more than anything to gain the self-confidence to express myself.…

    • 448 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Four Years Research Paper

    • 752 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Some people say that the four short years of high school are the best years of their life. For me, that wasn’t the case. Maybe I didn’t do it right, or maybe I was focused on the wrong things, but let’s just say I’ve been counting the days until graduation from my freshman year. Although high school wasn’t the best years of my life, if I could give my former self some advice, maybe I could have changed that. In order to better myself in the long run, I would tell my former self that I need to step out of my comfort zone, be myself, and relieve some of the stress that I was feeling.…

    • 752 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    I didn’t not know what I was expecting. On the first day of high school, I stepped into a crowd of students, waiting to enter the building that would become my second home for the next four years. I didn’ not know where I would stand among these highly accomplished individuals, or if I would even amount to the standards set before me. Self-doubt began to fester inside of me as soon as I stepped through the front doors. I expected less and less of myself as time went on.…

    • 750 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Superior Essays

    I have made many decisions in my life, but leaving home was not one of them. I always knew I wanted to succeed in life and do something productive with my life. However, my first thought was not coming to South Dakota to make the choice of becoming successful. If it was not for a good friend of mine, I would have never gotten the idea of coming to South Dakota. I believe coming here was one of the best decisions I have made in my entire life.…

    • 1610 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Felling that you have left alone and unwanted, coulkd be one of the worst thougfht you can out in your brain.i alwayn told my self if youn dont do it your self no one will.nwhat ever you are doing is just bringing your slef down. Coming into high school was a big change for me.alot of things transisioned from good to bad . when i came to mather high school i was relly surpriced because i was the only kid from my elementary schoool (kilmer elemntary school). So i was all alone without any friends in a unfamiliar place”. I showed up to school thinking in my head “i dont need to know anyone.…

    • 834 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    "He that is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else." - Benjamin Franklin I'm going to be completely honest with you all. As you can see, I didn't do too well in high school. Mostly due to severe emotional trauma. I felt worthless even after graduating, and took a year off from school to figure out what I wanted to do in life.…

    • 369 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Compare/Contrast Essay Time is irresistible; whether we like it or dislike it, it may affect us. This question made me think about the changes which has taken place in my life during the past 5 years. 5 years is a good amount of time to make changes and grow into a mature young adult entering my 20s. Though I’m still the same person on the outside, I have realized that within the past years, I have noticed 3 main changes in education, relationships and most importantly self-confidence.…

    • 782 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays

Related Topics