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Part 2 -
I grew up like most people today. Simple childhood, public school, and divorced parents. The hardest part of my life was accepting that there were things I could not change. What helped me along that epiphany was realizing how hard it would be to imagine my life any other way. In fact, when I look back at my life, I notice things. Things that most people notice at an older age. I see that whenever I had made a mistake in life, I learned a valuable lesson. Each lesson added up to what I am now, and I am proud of being who I am. Other challenges in my life would have to be listed in order of most challenging to least challenging. My No. 1 - There are things you cannot change. No. 2 - School. School is an entire topic in itself, so I will save some for later posts. The hardest part of school was putting up with bullying. Yes, I was bullied in school, and still am to this day. What surprised me about school - not only was it the insidious intent of other classmates, but teachers as well. I still do not understand my No. 2 challenge, and hope that one day I might be able to piece it together. Attain the knowledge, realize why for the life of me- so many people have the malicious intent of making peoples lives miserable. I remember having great friends all through school until I had moved in the fourth grade. Having no supporting friends in my new school, I was the subject of attention. My new school had already selected a positive subject of attention, so I was picked as the negative subject. Most of my schooling after was filled with bullies, racism, and teachers that had nothing better to do than to pick on their student of the day. I had a few teachers that had supported me through my middle school years, and I made it out of middle school with hopes that high school would be much much better. High school was actually much much worse, my freshman year I had moved two times within one semester. I could not keep up each individual curriculum at each of the schools. My teachers had seen me as a lost cause, and I was fed up. I told myself that I could not succeed even if I had completed every piece of homework from that moment on. In truth I could have passed with at least a "C" grade if I had. Though I had no support during that time.
I ended up failing my freshman year of high school. I remember asking a few of my teachers to just give me an "F" at the end of the year. Some protested the very thought of giving me less than I had deserved (Which was not much at all) Though others were very open to the idea, and gladly marked "Fail" as my final grade.
I felt that I would fail, the entire year. My family thought I would fail, and the only support I had was "Do your homework so you do not fail" "You might fail if you don't do this" "You don't want to graduate at age 21 do you" The list goes on, and I may have exaggerated the quotes, but in my mind I felt that I was a failure.
Now-
At times I see how my life is taking a dive for the worst of times, but other times I ask myself, "If my life is this bad now, I wonder how wonderfully perfect it will be later". I do not see how people can live a great life without having some bad times to compare the good times to. So my challenging life will eventually balance itself out, and turn for the better times ahead. Optimism is the best in the worst of times, and you are your greatest support.
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