Personal Narrative: Middle School Sucks

I Believe Middle School Sucks

For a portion of my life, I have tried to be someone I was not. In middle school especially, in order to gain popularity and fit in with people I thought would make me more popular, I was untrue to myself. I pretended to be a certain way and be interested in certain things that I didn’t even have much real interest in, and ultimately, I was not happy. Looking back, my three years of middle school were probably some of the worst years of my life. This was all because I wasn’t acting as myself, but instead as someone I thought would make other people happier. I believe that you need to be your true self in order to fulfill a happy life. There’s a borderline corny but powerful quote from Dr. Seuss that states: “Be

I finally was cognizant to the fact that the people I had been hanging out with on the weekends, shopping, going to events with and calling my friends, were not people I should’ve wanted in my life. I initially wanted to be friends with them because I thought they were the cool, trendy, popular girls and that I could become part of the it crowd by spending time with them. However, I was contrastive to them in more ways than we were alike, and I had ended up completely changing my personality for the sake of being a carbon copy of them. I finally saw that I was subsequently making myself unhappy because I wasn’t able to act like myself without being ridiculed or judged by these so called “friends” I associated myself with. I asked myself; “What am I doing? I don’t even actually like these

Sometimes, it’s hard to tell what someone’s authentic personality is like because they go through their life acting as if they are the people around them. Seeing this is disheartening because everyone has a personality that is uniquely their own, but many times people tuck it away because they are too worried about what other people think. If someone attempts to stop you from being yourself or doing things that make you happy, they obviously aren’t someone you want to stick around. These negative people are hard to avoid, but it can be done if you pay attention to yourself and seek ultimate well