Self Discovery Narrative Analysis

This paper is completely absurd and arbitrary. I believe that the essay that I am currently typing at this very moment is unfair. This essay is called a Self Discovery Narrative. The assignment was given to me by my English teacher, Mrs. Burnette. For this essay, we had to write about our own personal lives and either write about something that changed our perspective in life or something/ someone that is significant to us. The main reason I find this to be completely unfair is that not everyone has had something so significant in their lives, like me, the writer of this paper.
I am a hermit. I barely have any friends, experience much in life, and can barely fine any joy in life. So when my teacher handed me this assignment, I knew I was going to struggle. When I got home to try and work on this, I sat and stared at the paper for hours, just struggling trying to think of something to write about. I even tried staying after to get help on this; it wasn’t very effective. I abhor this paper. And yet, here we are, 14 days past the due date, and I am just now trying to type this essay. I have lost all sorts of ideas. I’ve had a few ideas here and there, but they mainly go against what my teacher had been going for in this unit.
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I don’t think that I’ve learned much about myself to write a 500 page self narrative essay to write something that’s significant. I might have overthinked this because I tend to do that a lot. A majority of my life is a blur, I can barely remember anything. I just remember that most of my life is bland and melancholic. There is no person, place, or thing that is significant, I could get rid of everything and essentially be the same person. Throughout my life, I have been called kind, intelligent, brave, courageous, artistic, etc. However, I beg to differ with all of them basically. I look upon myself as an average person, no one special. I view my own art as half