Personal Narrative: Why Keep Fighting
Why Keep Fighting
There were countless nights where I stood in my bedroom or in the garage, with a pillow pushed onto my face and screamed at the top of my lungs hoping that it would cause my father to stop shouting at my mother and denigrating her personality and physical appearance. At the time, I thought that every nightmare I had was coming true all at once. I began to feel depressed and timid of what the future had ahead for me and it led me to push away my friends and family and abandon every dream or achievement I worked for or planned on reaching. It took multiple months to regain sanity and overcome all the obstacles I faced during this time period.
I was in tenth grade when my parents started arguing and I would hear my mom weeping.
I would go to school the next day and feel as if I was invisible because my personality was not similar to the people whom I surrounded myself. The truth was that I did have friends who cared deeply for me ,but I paid more attention to the negative thoughts in my head; so I began to isolate myself away from others and I became distracted from my education and began to fall behind in most of my classes. This became another situation that I dug myself into and I saw myself as a failure which led me to become more depressed and develop an eating disorder.
At the end of the school year I decided to remove myself from situations, which led to my decision to quit color guard because of all the stress that was put on me and go to therapy. I had to learn new ways to cope with the situations that are out of my hands. As a result, my junior year of high school was extremely less stressful and my house was as calm as the waters. I still manage to keep my guard up incase a storm breaks out at my house between my parents. (word count-341)
There were countless nights where I stood in my bedroom or in the garage, with a pillow pushed onto my face and screamed at the top of my lungs hoping that it would cause my father to stop shouting at my mother and denigrating her personality and physical appearance. At the time, I thought that every nightmare I had was coming true all at once. I began to feel depressed and timid of what the future had ahead for me and it led me to push away my friends and family and abandon every dream or achievement I worked for or planned on reaching. It took multiple months to regain sanity and overcome all the obstacles I faced during this time period.
I was in tenth grade when my parents started arguing and I would hear my mom weeping.
I would go to school the next day and feel as if I was invisible because my personality was not similar to the people whom I surrounded myself. The truth was that I did have friends who cared deeply for me ,but I paid more attention to the negative thoughts in my head; so I began to isolate myself away from others and I became distracted from my education and began to fall behind in most of my classes. This became another situation that I dug myself into and I saw myself as a failure which led me to become more depressed and develop an eating disorder.
At the end of the school year I decided to remove myself from situations, which led to my decision to quit color guard because of all the stress that was put on me and go to therapy. I had to learn new ways to cope with the situations that are out of my hands. As a result, my junior year of high school was extremely less stressful and my house was as calm as the waters. I still manage to keep my guard up incase a storm breaks out at my house between my parents. (word count-341)