What is significance? Significance is something sufficiently great and important to be worthy of attention. It is something extraordinary that makes you see something a different way. It is markable and meaningful. Everyone has at least witnessed something significant and life changing once in their lifetime. Something life changing can be like losing a loved one or realizing something remarkable.
There was a time in my life where I realized something significant and life changing. It was when i was truly comfortable in my hijab. It was the summer of 2014 that made me change who i wanted to be. The previous year, I was in seventh grade and it was my first year wearing my hijab. I was terribly nervous and didn't know what others were going to …show more content…
I knew I matured and learned a lot more about my religion and thought about who I wanted to be. I wanted to build into a modest and independent girl who influences everyone around her. It was the first few weeks of school and I never had a single thought about taking my hijab off. No one had made any ignorant comments about me or my religion so I knew this year would be easy. Later onto the school year, I got close with one guy who I trusted and had a good friendship with. He was one of my closest friends for a while. Soon or later, things got out of hand and he decided to act racist. I thought it was all funny and he was kidding about it at first. But as weeks went on, his jokes started to hurt me and his friends were added into this. I was getting bullied. It all started with one boy whom I was very close with and thought was my friend. I thought I was going to break down and allow his words to sink into my mind, but I didn't. I never second guessed myself and thought about taking it off to avoid getting bullied. The more him and his friends were mean to me, the less I started to care what other people have said. I got stronger and stronger and soon didn't care what anyone was saying about me and my religion. Nothing stopped me from becoming who I wanted to be. Soon as my 8th grade year had finished, I realized that I started from an insecure little girl to a brave young lady who
There was a time in my life where I realized something significant and life changing. It was when i was truly comfortable in my hijab. It was the summer of 2014 that made me change who i wanted to be. The previous year, I was in seventh grade and it was my first year wearing my hijab. I was terribly nervous and didn't know what others were going to …show more content…
I knew I matured and learned a lot more about my religion and thought about who I wanted to be. I wanted to build into a modest and independent girl who influences everyone around her. It was the first few weeks of school and I never had a single thought about taking my hijab off. No one had made any ignorant comments about me or my religion so I knew this year would be easy. Later onto the school year, I got close with one guy who I trusted and had a good friendship with. He was one of my closest friends for a while. Soon or later, things got out of hand and he decided to act racist. I thought it was all funny and he was kidding about it at first. But as weeks went on, his jokes started to hurt me and his friends were added into this. I was getting bullied. It all started with one boy whom I was very close with and thought was my friend. I thought I was going to break down and allow his words to sink into my mind, but I didn't. I never second guessed myself and thought about taking it off to avoid getting bullied. The more him and his friends were mean to me, the less I started to care what other people have said. I got stronger and stronger and soon didn't care what anyone was saying about me and my religion. Nothing stopped me from becoming who I wanted to be. Soon as my 8th grade year had finished, I realized that I started from an insecure little girl to a brave young lady who