An Emotional Rollercoaster When I hear the words “high school” the first thing I think of is chaos. Over the past four years my life has changed and grown in a way I never had expected. I would like to compare my life from freshman to senior year to the children’s movie Inside Out. I felt that my world had been flipped inside out. My life is just now starting to get pulled back together, and yet it feels like it is starting to crumble again. I think that I can relate to the character Joy the most. This character is based off of the emotion Joy. The journey that Joy went through over the course of the movie closely ties the the journey I have gone through over these past few years. From freshman to senior year I have faced many hardships, but thanks to them I have grown stronger than I ever was. …show more content…
At this point Joy and Sadness had reached their lowest point in the pit of forgotten memories, and now with the help of a friend they are out of that dark place. The two emotions are on their way back up to headquarter; back to their normal life. That is where I was junior year. The problems in my life were being resolved and I had reconnected with my friends. Junior year was going great! All of my classes were going well and I had even raised my overall grade point average. I believe this is the point in my life where I just really opened up. I became a ton my social and expressive. The biggest thing I overcame that year was learning to stand up for myself and not take as much crap from others. I had always allowed myself to be pushed around by my peers and I would do anything to just make people like me. Now, I don’t really care a whole lot if people like me; I’m going to express my opinion on a topic whatever it may be. Also I tried to separate myself from the people in my life who made me feel miserable and lowered my self esteem. I grew so much mentally, and it really has helped me with knowing who my real friends are and where I
While everybody is ready for graduation, something didn’t feel right to me. I didn’t feel like I had accomplished anything. I wasn’t accepted into any colleges like everyone else, and that’s because I didn’t even apply. I wasn’t prepared for anything, let alone college. I’m not in high school anymore. It was a game to me and I finally ran out of lives. There’s not as many chances outside of high school. I’ve come to the realization that I need to listen to my counselor and get it together and be more like my best friends and work towards a goal until I accomplish it. I needed to change my and realize that my past doesn’t have to determine my future. I wanted to grasp the concept of, “it’s never to late.” I desired to become a better version of myself. I craved to the idea of a positive purpose in life. I wanted to earn the respect and admiration of others. I wanted to be better. At last, my mind is exactly where it’s suppose to be, and I have come to the recognition that all I need it just one more
...ademic hardships. Even though I lost so much during junior year, I was unaware of the fact that secretly I was actually gaining a great deal of life experiences and real-life lessons for the future. Quite honestly I feel lucky. I feel lucky that I matured early in life; with this new maturity I feel I can accomplish anything. I feel I can make a positive difference in this world. I feel like this experience will be the primary step in my success, in terms of my career, and in the launch of my Children in Need campaigns in third world countries. I feel like the young superman who just learned how to fly, slightly aware of his magnificent impact towards the world. In short, I feel junior year provided foundation for the more mature and adult chapters of my life, and without the numerous obstacles of junior year, I would never gained the key to a successful future.
The first way I can compare my life to this movie, is by comparing my life epieriences to Charlie's. When Charlie first started high school l, he was alone and depressed. Just like Charlie that's what happened to me except the whole depression part. I can relate to Charlie the most in this movie, I went into high school all alone even though I knew almost everyone around me. Just like the characters I've had a lot of ups and downs in my life. I have felt like an outcast before like Charlie. My feelings are being compared to some of the ways the characters have felt like being sad, lonely, afraid, excited, and even at some point happy. This reminds me of when I met my old friends.
I went through so much throughout high school, but homecoming week transformed my life. I realized not to worry about what people have to say about me. I would never stoop to adversity, I have too much to lose. I learned how to be robust. Yes, I cried and hid in bathrooms but I never retaliated or showed them the pain they caused. Just because a group of girls abhorred me, that didn’t mean the whole school agreed. I learned how to love myself and do not change for anyone or situation. What is meant to be, will happen. If you continue to be yourself, others will notice and appreciate what you stand
It was the beginning of freshman year. I didn’t know what to do or how to react to the people and classes in high school. I was so nervous and shaken about what was to come this upcoming year. My fears of getting lost in the hallways, being late for class, or not being in a class with someone I knew were looming over me. I was in some advanced classes that my other friends were not in. I was scared about what people would think so I felt the need to change who I was.
Betty Lou is right -- Our achievements of the past four years have been an honor. And so I offer my congratulations to each of you for achieving the honor that comes with high school graduation. Up to this point, high school may be the most exciting and difficult experience of our lives. We've enjoyed the carefree and happy times with WWF-style pep assemblies, dances, Junior T-P nights, and classes with friends. We've had our bad days too, though. The days when we forgot our semester project for C.I. at home, or when we couldn't stop falling asleep and Mr. Gnome made us get up to "open a window." But far worse were the times when we felt alone. We've all had days of personal crisis when we've felt rejected by those around us or alienated from them. Hopefully, we were fortunate enough to have had a friend come rescue us from isolation, but perhaps not.
I remember the time when I had gotten promoted to high school as a 9th grader. That time was so important to me, at that time and age. It was a phase that you usually get over. I was growing up and starting all over again in a different environment with entirely different motives. I had started at the lowest class in the school, once again, as a freshman. I wasn’t a big 8th grader that internally felt more in control due to my age and experience. It was quite odd, just a couple of days before promotion, I was 8th grader, however I had more similarities with a 6th grader. This was me starting from strength to weakness. Through that I figured it out. Life is a process of phases that repeat, and helps a person grow. The famous novelist and blogger
These last four years have been rough on me but luckily there have been some lessons learned through it. I have just looked forward and moved on to greater things in life. I leave behind the bad and move on to the good. A good quote to describe my adventure through high school is when Jeannette is talking to her mother. The mother says, “ Things usually work out in the end,” to where Jeannette replies, “What if they don’t?” The mother answers with, “That just means you haven’t come to the end yet.” The quote describes my struggles in life and also brings hope for a happier
I’m working on getting a car, which is very soon. As a senior, you begin to get closer to the real world and what life is like on your own. I’m so ecstatic that I finally made it to senior year. Prom is coming up and I don’t know if I’m going or not because I have other priorities. I would enjoy it a lot though! Graduation is approaching then college; I just can’t wait. Life after highschool is going to be exciting and interesting. I’m going to start and finish college, so that I can have a great career. Nursing is what I’m going for. I’m really going to miss high school. Everyone tells me that while your in school you hate it; which is true, but after you graduate you’re going to be bored and miss it. I know that I’m going to miss it, but I’m going to be glad that i’m starting a new journey. Senior year is going by slow, but that’s because I have “senioritis”. I made new friends over the months and lost some; which happens, but my life has changed for the better. Many of my teachers taught me to never give up and if you do it won’t turn out well. I thought senior year was suppose to be the easiest year because it’s your last. My senior year wasn’t all that bad because I worked hard and maintained A’s and B’s
As young girl with big dreams I imagined my senior year of high school to be one of the best years of my life. I imagined going to homecoming with all of my friends, being the captain of the varsity soccer and cheerleading teams, going to Friday night football games, going to Prom with my perfect date, and going on a senior trip with all of my best friends. I never imagined my senior year to be the way that it is. I am the new kid.
My palms were sweating, my heart was racing, I had no idea what to expect or who I was going to meet. I was never the type of girl to embrace new situations, I hated change and I wasn’t very good with meeting new people. I figured once I got to high school it would be my chance to start all over, turn the page in my book of life, and flip over a new leaf. I wanted to finally be the girl that fit in with everyone. I had imagined myself going to parties with big groups of my new friends, having sleepovers and doing all of the things cool high school kids normally do. I was certain that my high school career would be just like one of those really corny teen movies and I would live happily ever after with the homecoming crown and the boy of my dreams. I don’t think I could have been any further from the actual truth. Things don’t always turn out how they are planned and my high school dreams definitely did not live up to my high expectations.
I would only attended close friends’ birthday parties and I believe I only had two of them, Alex’s and Lyssa’s. My freshman year of high school looks like a 5’1ft me and surrounded by piled and piled of worksheets and books, maybe my core teachers standing in each corners. Each time I got hit by a water balloon, I felt I could finally yet slowly breath again. As I was picking up the broken balloon on the grass, I came to a realization that I could make my high school feel like this water balloon fight. There is part that I get to have fun, yet there is still time to clean; it was all about balance. I promised myself, in three months I needed to make up all the fun I have missed during my freshman year. Sporting events, participating in clubs, meeting friends in the morning, socializing outside of school, etc. Although, my sophomore GPA was not as high as my freshman year, I did not regret any of it. I still have decent grades and I have a life. I realized how much free of stress I was compared to the exact same time last year. I never admitted that I’m a perfectionist, because nothing was ever good enough for
Growing up from 7th grade on, something was different with me. I was always anxious and depressed. I began staying home from school in 8th and 9th grade. I was struggling. Freshman year, things started to go downhill. Pushing away everyone who cared about me, had become second nature. My family situation was a mess. I began at a new school for my 10th grade year, and about 2 months in, I was bullied and slut-shamed so bad that I had to leave that school. I developed a substance abuse problem and was using daily. My life was in a burning trash can. One day, I got sent to rehab by my parents. I went to Sunrise Academy and turned my life around. Even though it took me a year and a half, I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for that day that I was
Half way through that year my cousin who is like a brother to me decided it was time for him to move to Phoenix Arizona accompanied by his newly wedded wife and try to make a living there. Him leaving really hit me hard, I was pretty close to becoming depressed. During that time I preferred to keep my mind busy as a result my grades shot up almost forty percent. Math in not my favorite subject at all, but for the first time in my entire life I can say that I really enjoyed and looked forward to going to my first period math class, I had the highest grade in that particular class for that semester. For the rest of that school year after overcoming all my problems I was just going to school getting my work done, get home, finish homework and do some work around the house.
I was on the honor roll! I no longer had to dread report cards! Then I had all A’s! Wow! I was going to make it! Grades weren’t the only thing that was changing, I was changing in a lot of ways. I cleaned myself up, grew my hair a little longer and I grew my first beard and mustache. You guessed it! I had started noticing girls and they were beautiful! None more beautiful than the girl I took to my junior and senior prom, Miss Alex Bradley. She made my proms worth renting the tuxedos. I will always remember her as one of my best friends. These were the years that I began a friendship with someone who would turn out to be my best friend (John Phillips). John isn’t just my friend, he is my brother for life.