Me Myself and I Essay

For the longest time, I didn’t feel comfortable in my skin. My lack of self-love almost destroyed me because it caused me to settle in every area of my life. I’ve come a very long way, but it hasn’t been without heartbreak and confusion along the way. Growing up, I was an extremely shy kid who never felt quite comfortable around people, with the exception of my family and a few close friends. This feeling of inadequacy all began in elementary school when I was teased for my brown skin and skinny…

“Who are you?” When I think about it, people don’t ask that up front, unless they seek confrontation. Nevertheless, it’s not the type of question that people are generally ready to answer, on a deep level. I aim to answer that question through this paper in order to help me reflect on my life as part of my pursuit in becoming a leader in the army. I will briefly discuss my background, my core values, and some the events that I believe have truly shaped me. I am currently in my final semester at…

goals and accomplishing is such a major victory. Here I am now going to demonstrate my goals and what I plan to do with them or how I can better them. #1 Commitment/Work ethic Staying committed is a wonderful value to have because it indicates how serious I take my job and the passion while preforming it. With this great value of truly staying committed takes dedication, hard work, and…

years i’ve ever gone through. The pressure of anxiety, peer pressure and grieving from a terrible loss created a depressed lifestyle. I endured some situations that many people could never relate to. I wasn’t happy. My grades slipped, I pushed away my friends and I lost myself. These tragedies in my life truly taught me how to become a better person and do things for myself and not other people. Before my freshman year started; my best friend, partner in crime, and cousin was diagnosed with…

in my life that have set me aside from the other people in this world. I have spent many of my days set apart from the general majority of people without becoming part of the group through conforming. It was a struggle to feel included without the fear of being judged. From the early days of my childhood, I struggled with self esteem issues and never felt like I was good enough to have friends or be happy in my life. I was always afraid that no one would understand me and I would be made fun of…

As I progressed through the Restorative Leadership Development: Authority with Grace course over the last several weeks, a few themes emerged for me. The need to take care of myself, the need to create time and space for reflection and the need to be confident to make decisions that will have consequences are areas that I received specific feedback about. Throughout the course, I applied these ideas to both my work and my personal life with mixed results. However, despite the mixed results, I…

insecurities. All throughout my life, I was unbothered with comments such as that. Then grade nine came and somehow, that comment made me an insecure young girl. This experience help me learn to be careful with my words as it can affect one’s life. Not only that, I also learned to appreciate what I had and who I had. Anger was starting to fill me up. Seeing Anne at school caused my blood to boil and my heart to feel the atrocious pain from the stabs she left me. Despite all that I decided to be…

people stereotype me does not affect me at all. The only way that I would be affected by this is if my parents, grandparents, or a coach said something to me stereotyping me. But just because it does not affect me doesn’t mean that it won’t affect other people. Stereotyping/Judging is really a terrible thing on this planet. It can lower a person's self-esteem causing depression, self-harm and even suicide. As sad as it is it exists, and it really does suck. The way people see me can vary from…

I hate writing about myself. It’s typical, but it’s true. I always try to bend the rules to write about anything else. So when I saw this prompt, I had no idea what to write about. At first it was just that I didn’t want to write about things from my past, especially unpleasant things. However, I soon realised that the problem with this paper was that I wasn’t over most of my struggles—or rather, I wasn’t in a position to write about them well. I sat down and thought about what I could possibly…

conversation starter, I am multiracial and proud, but to simplify my ethnicities to others when asked, I identify myself as Asian. I was stereotyped because of how we are perceived in media and society. I spent years cowering in my own skin because others made me believe I was not Asian because of the size of my eyes, the color of my hair, and my personal interests. I was ashamed of what I looked like since I was convinced it embodied who I am as a person. When I was younger, I constantly ran…