My senoir quote by Mysha

My senoir quote by Mysha - November 2018 Scholarship Essay

My senior quote would be " After all the challenges I faced I still made it" why I would chose this to be my quote is because one of my main challenges that could have held me back would have been my insecurities and here is why Since I was a young girl the biggest challenge I have faced is my insecurities. The one that took over my life would be being insecure of my weight. I have always been the biggest out all my groups of friends . Everyone was skinny or had what seem to be the perfect body to me at the time. While I thought I had a horrible body. I would look in the mirror from time to time and what I seen would disgust me. It did not help that in school and outside of school children would make fun of me and call me names. Sooner or later I became depressed which caused suicidal thoughts. I felt like no would care about the little fat girl that was in there classrooms or lived in their neighborhood. But one day my life changed for the better. It was one of those days in middle school when I feeling down having suicidal thoughts like I had very often during those times and I was on social media and seen a picture with a quote that stated “Be proud of who you are, and not ashamed of how someone else sees you”. I don’t know what is was about this specific quote but after that day I changed how I looked upon myself. I started writing my feelings in journal so I did not have to bottle them in anymore. When people would say rude or disrespectful remarks I would brush it of remember a piece of the the quote “ be proud of who you are”. I learned that it does not matter what others think because god made us all different for a reason and anything we don’t like about are self like weight can be changed. I won’t say that through the process of learning to love myself again that I did not have setbacks because I did but the further in my journey I went the easier it got. Now today at 17 years old a junior in high school I walk with my head held high loving the person I see in the mirror. I don’t have suicidal thoughts any more. Also what I did not like with my body I changed not because of insecurities but because I wanted to live a healthier life.