Personal Narrative: Facing My Monsters In High School

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Facing My Monsters Throughout high school, students face many problems and challenges that define them as who they are. Sometimes the students overcome these challenges but others it obliterates. When you overcome challenges it defines who you are and how strong you can become. To truly find out who I was, I had to overcome my anxiety. Throughout the last four years, I’ve been to 3 different high schools, because of this I was always worried about who I would know in the next class and what everyone thought of me. My first semester of my freshman year of high school I went to Lake Ridge HS, for the second semester I moved to Legacy HS. When I started at Legacy I was so nervous and my anxiety got really bad, it was to the point where I had

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