Personal Narrative: Middle School

Middle school was a tough time for me, but it was not always that way in the beginning. During seventh grade, I knew all of my classmates. While I was starting a new chapter in my life, it felt great to have all these friends. I never knew during that time that I would end up regretting that. Something changed one day in the middle of seventh grade and somehow I became the school's outcast. I no longer hung out or even talked to the same people. I turned into the person who was at the end of everyone’s jokes. Luckily, I had a couple true friends that stood by my side through all of this. Almost everyday someone wanted to have a physical altercation with me; that’s just was not how I am, so I never fought back. I continued to let them bully

It is difficult to do new things; especially when you are used to having the same routine for such a long time, but when you are doing something that is no longer helping you, then it is time for a change. Most people are paradigmatic, which means they only think inside the box; their idea of how they should be is fixed. Also, it is when you limit your view on things and start to rule out every new possible thing that could alter your life. A paradigm is not a safety zone, instead it is a trap. It keeps you from expanding your views. For me, it was definitely a trap. I was so far stuck into a life where I was used to and for a while, did nothing to modify the way I lived. Henri Bergson wrote “...for a conscious being, to exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly” (Goodwill). Changing, maturing, and creating yourself is what we should be doing without a second thought. Change is what makes us into the person that we are

She, who is an Asian woman designed an American, black colored, v-shaped memorial for the Vietnam War. During this time it was absurd for a woman to have high accomplishments. To win a contest over many other men was not common. Also, her being of Asian ethnicity, while the memorial represented the battle against those in Vietnam and Southeast Asia stirred up a big commotion. How could we let an Asian women create the memorial for a battle against her own people? Lastly, no one agreed with her color or choice of shape. All memorials were white at the time and she created a black memorial that was unusually v-shaped. This whole situation screams that the people during this time were afraid and offended of change. They did not want any kind of shift in the way things were done and they refused to see new things in a new light. Eventually, some altered their views and began to understand the meaning behind her created memorial, it was simply the best one made.
Peter De Vries wrote, “Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril” (Goodwill). This means someone who has a normal and calm life, decides to change a part of their life into something dangerous and spontaneous. We all do this, especially me. At night when I lay at home in my room, I get out of bed, call some friends and try to do something that will shake my life up so it is not too boring and stable; whether it be going out on a road trip