Many people personally told me that people change for the better or the worse during high school, but I never believed it was true. Looking back on my high school years I noticed that what they said was actually accurate. It all seemed strange to me at first because I 'm not the type of person who lies and manipulates others to become someone 's friend. But within those four years I became aware of how quickly people can switch up and change. Like how the person I thought I knew acting completely different. But many others were, so I realized that my biggest mistake in high school was letting friendship change my actions and get to me. With any situation that hit, Amaury was the type of person I could always run to no matter what. To add on, …show more content…
Yeah, it was awkward for a while, although at the end things got better between Amaury and I. That 's when I even started to get a different vibe from him which was unexpected. I notice that he would stare at me very often, play the if I were your boyfriend jokes and more. But I really tried to shrug it off and not pay attention to him, because I didn 't feel the same way as I did before. I just wanted Amaury to be my best friend and be there for me. However, no matter how much I tried to get things to go back to how they were, it only got worse. Due to all the tension between us, fights broke out that only led to us not talking. As a consequence, that was when Katherine came around and tried to work things out between us, still it was no …show more content…
I didn 't feel like my myself as the weeks went by. I noticed a change, as in how they both acted whenever I was around. At anytime I would enter the classroom for music and one of them would be leaving I would put my head down. Also, if I spotted them at lunch, they would roll their eyes and laugh. I noticed my attitude towards them changing because of it. I would wonder why things ended up so badly. It was as if this time I was a completely different person. The day came that my mom spoke to me and said, “dwelling on a situation won 't make anything better, what you have to do is move on” .Ever since that day, it made me realize that my biggest mistake was letting friendship get to me. It impacted me so much, to the point where my attitude changed completely and the way I was acting towards others changed. I noticed that I wouldn’t smile as much as I used to, or even talk that much. In fact, I tried so hard to avoid several because I didn’t want to believe things had changed. Nonetheless, the day came where something finally snapped and made me realize that I had to move on from the
I felt as though I was watching a train barrelling towards me, an inevitable bullet that had come tumbling out of the opposing pitcher’s arm. But instead I stood immobilized, watching my team's only chance of winning whiz by me. Strike three. I heard my team from behind me shouting “SWING!” with my mind screaming the same. But my bat remained unmoving, the pop of the catcher's glove like the nail into the coffin that was our defeat. All I had to do to keep our hopes of winning hope alive was swing, and yet I couldn't. I stayed on the field afterwards, tossing the ball up in the air and swinging away, landing it on the thick maple barrel of the bat.
When going into high school the same friends you have in freshmen year aren’t the same in senior year. Strong Friendship is always hard to get, I knew who my real friends were after every year in high school ended. By the end of my senior year I had almost all the same friends except for three or four. But there was this one girl who stayed and she been my best friend since then we have had tough time and we have broken up but we always come back to each other. During the break ups I never treated anybody special like I did with her somehow I knew she was going to come back. The theme was always in my life and it showed me that not all my good friends are going to stay but when you have a best friend they’re always going to be
Middle school was a amazing experience, for me anyway. I, myself have changed tremendously from the beginning of 6th grade to the end of 8th grade. Not just in appearance either, on the inside as well.
Looking back through my middle school and high school years, I see that I have matured a great amount. I see my current self as someone that treats others with respect, and who does not blurt out anything that comes to mind. I sadly cannot say that was always the case. Throughout high school, everyone changes at least a minimal amount, and sometimes you don’t even notice the changes. Maturity is something that happens naturally for most, and can happen in the matter of a summer break.
Throughout my four years in high school I have been fortunate enough to fulfill many of my aspirations and my thirst for knowledge. One goal that I would like to achieve is to become an international attorney. I have aligned my involvement in specific academic and extra-curricular activities to aid me preparing for the long road between my present situation and the day I pass the bar exam. Through my high school activities I have learned three virtues that I have deemed necessary to achieve my goal, passion, self-discipline, and perseverance.
This topic has brought out a lot of ideas that have been storming inside of my head for a while now. The topic I have chosen is that simply High school and how that has affected me a ton. Now how has this affected me you may ask well it has changed my responsibility's and changed my life. Well every morning I have to wake up early and be so tired the last thing I truly want to do is go to school well someone has to do it and that someone is me. School is really boring and half the stuff if not more you will never use but you must still learn it all if you ever want to be successful in life. i am here to tell you that I have accomplished years of high school and can accomplish those hard years of college. Thank you for your
Everyone seemed to be having the time of their lives, the feeling of being free from high school finally sinking into their minds. Forgetting about all of their problems for the night, and letting loose. My mom always says that I’ll regret this when I grow up; not living the full high school experience. But what is really considered the “high school experience”? It is just going to parties, homecoming dances, prom, and being in relationships? How cliché.
When I was entering into High School, I tried to join as many clubs as I can, since I wanted not only to be superior in grades, but also extracurricular activities. So as usual, I joined Key Club. At first volunteering at the events was fun, but as I went to more events, it felt as if it was a chore. I did not feel any passion; it was rather tiresome.
Try to imagine being homeschooled near your entire life before high school, then moving from Los Angeles to Miami and starting as a freshman at one of the country’s largest high schools. With 4,500 students, 93% minority enrollment, as well as English being a second language what challenges do you think you would face? How would you approach something like this? Would you be a little scared? I wasn’t, I am a Military brat and I was eager to dive in head first on Expert Mode.
Let’s flash back in time to before our college days. Back to then we had lunch trays filled with rubbery chicken nuggets, stale pizza, and bags of chocolate milk. A backpack stacked with Lisa Frank note books, flexi rulers, and color changing pencils. The times where we thought we wouldn’t make it out alive, but we did. Through all the trials and tribulations school helped build who I am today and shaped my future. From basic functions all the way to life-long lessons that helped shape my character.
People change, their values change, and their plans for the future change. No one's future is engraved in stone. Sometimes a student in high school may be voted most likely to succeed and turn out to be a failure. Or the student that shows little promise in school may turn out to be a huge success. One can never tell.
One way my personality has changed in 5 years was my confidence, I can look at myself in the mirror and not notice the “flaws” in front of me, I used to pick out everything that I thought was wrong with me and try to fix it. I couldn’t care less about what other people think about me and I am able to wear what makes me feel comfortable with confidence. I will now wear sweat pants to class or out in public, if I please, and not feel afraid to look messy or gross. I had many friends in middle school but a lot of them weren 't true friends, we would all talk about each other and do cruel things to each other. I now have a few close friends and we all treat each other with love and kindness. I think of my friends and family more than myself, I make
I was back to being the “weird girl” without any friends by her side. However, this time it hurt me so much more than the last. After experiencing the true joys in life though my beautiful relationship with Calaya, I was unprepared to return to my terrible reality. Having known exactly what life could be like in the presence of a friend, I was emotionally unable to recommence my suffering. From then on, I spent the majority of the school-day bawling my eyes out uncontrollably during class.
The class of 2015 had been working all year selling food at lunch and sports events and carrying out fundraisers. The first time I got an inkling that my friends would not be true friends was when we were planning the trip, we were choosing rooms for the trip and I asked my best friend, “Hey, we could room with each other on the trip!” To which she replied “Oh I’m staying with someone else and we can’t have 5 people in a 4 person room.”. When I asked where she thought I could stay she said “Well I don’t know.” I was torn, I had just been betrayed by my best friend, I had been treated like this before, but I just put up with it and somehow I had a feeling it would not be the last. Instead of being in a room with my best friend, I was assigned a room with three girls I did not know well. In the long run being in that room was one of the highlights of the trip for me.
Firstly, I now know that it’s okay to be interested in different things and to want to venture down a new path. There is nothing wrong with being alone in something because if it’s something you enjoy then it shouldn’t matter whatsoever. If I had followed my friend into things she enjoyed instead of things I was interested in, I wouldn’t have grown into who I am now. My empowerment in student council allowed me to receive multiple scholarships and gain the leadership experience that I travel with today. I feel that this was a personal challenge which allowed me to see my own potential. Secondly, I learned that it is okay for change to occur. Once I had created an attachment to my best friend, it was hard for me to understand the small-scale change we were undergoing. This lesson allowed me to make a connection with an article we read called How Friendships Change in Adulthood, written by Julie Beck. Beck discusses the hierarchy of relationships as peoples ages increase, and unfortunately friendships falls towards the bottom. She explains that during adolescence, there’s a lot more self-disclosure and support between friends, but they’re still trying to discover their personal identity. William Rawlins states that the unfortunate part of this is, “In adolescence, people have a really retractable self. They’ll change,” (Beck, 2016). Although Beck also notes that young adults have time to devote to their friends, they’re constantly changing. By growing up and moving onto bigger things, such as grade school to high school, our networks are also growing. This allows for them to experience new things and get to know new people (Beck, 2016). I feel that this is exactly what happened between Makayla and I. Thankfully, now I know that without change, there is no room for new knowledge or adventure. I believe that this allowed my attitude and behaviour to take on a more positive and confident role in