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Comparing Two Time Periods

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The two things that I will compare and contrast are two time periods in my life. The first time period will be my 7th grade year to my 10th grade year, this would be a short time from middle to high school. The second time period that I will be comparing and contrasting to that will be from my 11th grade year till now. My 7th grade year to my 10th grade years of schooling, I was not in the best mental state. I felt very alone and I had several insecurities about myself, and I would take that out on myself. Self harm was the only result I saw at that time to relieve all the emotions I felt. It was overwhelming for me at that time. I would starve myself and not eat for a day or two. The crazy part was in 8th grade, I was only 80 pounds! I don't know why I would think like that. I went to counseling for it but that did not help at all. Many people that were close to me did not understand why I would do this to myself, which I didn't expect them to because they were one of the reasons. Also during my 10th grade year, I met someone who hurt me in a big way …show more content…

Once I removed myself from one BIG issue that was the cause of 95.5% of all of my problems, In a way I found a peace of mind. No, I am not 100% okay and I doubt I will be but it is better than before. In conclusion I do still have and experience some things that I went through my 7th grade to 10th grade years. Yet I still see growth as person for myself, some people may not see much from reading or hearing about everything when I talk about things like this but as long as I see growth in myself I think that is the most important. I can not stress enough when I stated that when I was able to remove myself from the main source of what was wrong, it helped so much. I think that these two different times in my life say a lot about me and I am not

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