The challenge that absolutely changed my way of seeing things happened when I was in middle school. I was being bullied during my 7th grade year. There happened to be this person who started spreading rumors about me around school. I didn’t know the reason and I decided to ignore everything said about me. At that time, I lost most of my friends due to false rumors. Every time I would walk through the hallways, there was students staring at me and trying to stay away from me. When I would enter class, I had a tough time focusing until one day I stopped having the courage to go to school. My mom started noticing my bad temper when school came up and she started to get concerned and insisted on knowing the reason why I didn’t want to go. Since this could not go unnoticed, I decided to explain to her and she insisted on talking with the counselors at the school. Fortunately, the counselors found a solution to my problem and got me to go back to school. Unfortunately, I still did not want to go back because I knew I was on my own since I was left with no friends so this made my mom think I made up the lie of being bullied so I wouldn’t have to go to school. I felt like I lost everyone and everything because my mom was the only person I had left and she didn’t trust me anymore. At this point, I had given up. Then I started to overthink and decided to take the easy way out; but then I also started to look at how my brothers ended up. My brothers didn’t graduate high school, they had gave up just like I was doing, and they ended up working at a low pay, and so I thought about how I was my mom’s last hope. I finally decided to go back to school and ignore all the negativity there was. I also decided to only focus on my education and make it my priority. My 7th grade year was definitely a challenge because at that age, I cared about everything, everyone, and would let simple things get to me. However, I still managed to get back on track and learned that I can’t let other people’s comments, opinions, and actions get to me and affect me. I also learned that I can’t give words the power of defeating me, I can’t depend on anyone and that friends come and go. Thanks to that challenging year, today I have a better understanding that I need to stay in school to finish my education so I can get a good job with a good salary. The decisions I made that year have set me into the right direction and at the same time, i've been making my mom proud. I now only focus on the most important things in my life that will benefit my family and I.
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