Personal Narrative: Be Myself

This is a story about something I learned that changed my life. It’s a phrase that most people just ignore from having heard it so often repeated by motivational speakers who don’t really know what they’re talking about. But I have found this phrase to be true, and this phrase is “Be yourself”.

For a lot of my life after I started school, I wanted to be like the other kids. They were all popular, played sports and had lots of friends. I was like a lost puppy, blindly following along but never really fitting in. I pretended to enjoy watching sports even though I didn’t know why we were cheering for or why, and I would rather be anywhere else. I talked like them but I didn't walk like them.

But eventually I found a few friends with similar