Certainty and Doubt Essay Example

August, 2017 was the beginning of my Sophomore year in high school. I was happy and I believed in myself, I was prepared for anything. Over the course of three days my world changed forever, I made what I thought was a new friend. As it turns out he had other plans for me and my life.

August 4, 2017-I walked into my photography class and sat next to a recently made friend, Josh. I had been having trust issues with people, but Josh seemed nice. We listened to our teacher as she gave instructions for next photo assignment. Once she finished, I got straight to work on the task she had given us. As I was putting on the finishing touches in photoshop I asked Josh to take a look and he groaned, “This looks like shit. Give it here.” I passed my computer to him and he fixed it to perfection. This minor occurrence I ignored, but he did this every other day and as time went on he became harsher about it. 

After a week of sitting together, he stole my USB drive and later on the same day he gave it back and said at volume that only I could hear, “Prepare yourself, life is about to get difficult for you.” I was nervous in that moment and I realized I needed to figure out how to get out of my current situation. I also realized that I didn’t know how to get out of the situation. As the weeks went on I stopped being happy and I was being smacked around. 

Other people could tell I was sad and the ones that hated me took advantage and said unspeakable things to me. I let myself believe that I wasn’t worth anything, I thought that I wasn’t human. Toward the end of the school year I was broken and I didn’t know what to do. Then I realized that I made it through a school year of torture using hard work. I didn’t exactly believe in myself, but I knew I could accomplish great things. 

August 1, 2018-The first day back at school was the day I was reminded of how school life was for me. The insults returned and I was ok with it, I wasn’t happy, but I wasn’t quite sad either. I had taken a class called creative writing and I was able to create my own little worlds that I could venture off to. I was also able to practice for what I want my future career to be. My teacher and my classmates enjoyed my stories, even when I didn’t. I was just working hard, I wasn’t believing in myself. I wrote what I believed people would enjoy and it was working. 

I was able to write in multiple genres as well. Genres such as horror, comedy, adventure, and a few others. After winter break school changed for me again and I was lost for the longest time. I didn’t know what to do, my creative writing class lasted for one semester. I stopped being inspired to do things. A teacher noticed this and decided instead of ignoring the problem I had she was going to build me up. She made me feel like I mattered again and she showed me that I was capable of accomplishing great things academically.

Present day-Looking back on these two years as taught me that you success doesn’t start by believing in yourself. If you’re willing to try to accomplish great things and you work hard at what you’re passionate about you’ll do good. I never enjoyed any of my stories or photo work, but even if you don’t impress yourself, you will make someone else proud. There is always going to be hope even if you can’t see it.