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Personal Narrative: The Act Of Personal Change

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I have transferred to a different school each year since I was a freshman. My first move I had started to inwardly question the act of personal change, and how it can affect one’s mind. This is the time where I had a plethora of internal conflict relating to one’s change and growth as a person. I remember one day looking at everyone around me and realizing that they've been through change, and that these people have grown into the person they embodied based upon events that have presented themselves in their lives, and whether or not they had overcome these obstacles. And then I thought of something that made me tilt my head slightly, and this thought has been on my mind for four years: people don’t realize how similar they are to each other. …show more content…

The reader then applies this to their real-world situations without realizing. I think this is the same with having a surfeit of human experience. As I’m well into my senior year of high school, subsequently my fourth school since freshman year, I have discovered an answer to my visceral feeling that everyone is more similar than they realize. Every year, new friends have subconsciously told me their stories of family problems and school stress, as well as peer pressure and the overwhelming urge to figure out what they want to do for the rest of their lives. Not only do I relate to these issues myself, but I think of my other friends who have told me these same stories in the previous years and I think, “They don’t know it, but there’s someone out there who is going through the same problems as we are, but this awareness is not mutual.” Just witnessing these stories that have been repeated to me but from different people has given me more empathy. I recall other incidents similar and I am reminded of the universal feelings that are present and I use this to apply my compassion toward

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