The Importance Of Moving To GCMS School

When I was younger, I struggled to support any friendships for an extended period of time. Before I moved to GCMS School district, I had previously attended three separate schools for the same few reasons. My parents could not afford to live where we did, one or both lost their job, or the environment was not suitable for our family. Moving so often made it difficult to keep in contact with old friends, and even more difficult to make new ones. As I was shy and introverted, it was an intimidating and terrifying situation. By fourth and last time we moved, I had gotten used to leaving old friends behind and forgetting things like connection, because social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter were outside of my range of usability. The closest thing I had for …show more content…
I noticed that it was getting easier to talk to people without being too awkward in conversation. I started to take risks and open myself up as a person, regardless of the reactions of those around me. I realized sometime in my ninth grade year that I had always been this way, I was too scared to embrace it. This is something I consider one of my greatest failures, but also my greatest development. My younger years were difficult due to a combination of my parents struggling to pay bills and providing for my sister and me, lacking academic determination which kept me a B student for too long, and having no confidence in any personal social interaction. My immature self back then viewed these problems as nothing that could change, and something that would hold me back forever. When I finally matured enough to see through these unfortunate circumstances, I realized I could have spent my early life better off than I did. Despite these problems in life, I manage to push past my social anxiety. I learn from my mistakes at other schools. I study until I understand how to learn in a way that helps me excel in