Personal essay
Sitting, watching in the middle of lunch this is where it all begins. The cliques, the strong desperation to get a seat with those people over there or to be seen as the person that everybody wants to be with. The confusion is at an all-time high. The top of your priorities are finding friends, being known, getting good grades and making the people around you proud all while trying to stay sane. Music becomes your life and Netflix become your escape. The struggle when some days you just want to crawl in the covers and never come out. “Life only gets harder from here” they tell you and “Wait to you become and adult” seem to be the only thing people are telling you. This is the point in your life when everything changes. This is the moment that you start to figure out life. Insecurities seem to have a huge flashing neon sign over my head. Look there’s a pimple on my forehead, why do I weight so much (is this even normal)? Why don’t I look half as pretty as her? Then the …show more content…
Yea those dreaded 8 hours that cause for me to have to wake up at six every morning five mornings in a row, with teachers who seem to make it their goal to make me have an aneurism with all the stress of papers, test, exams and grades. The expectations are killer and will probably be the death of me. While school seems to be one of the main reasons why I am always tired and confused. It has given me an amazing experience, I have been given the opportunity to meet super cool people, learn some interesting things and prepare for life outside of a sheltered 8-3:15 life style. It’s given me the essential teachings to learn that yea life isn’t easy and that different people have different expectations from me. All of my comfort zones have been tested and pushed and for that I am thankful because without the constant struggle of trying to stay on top of everything. I would not have learned that I am a strong and dedicated