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Personal Narrative: Nothing That Changed My Life
On the surface you could probably say this what happened shouldn't be that big of a deal, and you’re probably right. But what happened changed me and there is nothing that you can really say about that.
Two years ago in about mid september things couldn't have been going any better. I had near perfect grades and was actually having fun in every one of my classes. I had felt like nothing could stop me from having a fantastic year. But there was this girl I really liked and was so confident in myself I set a date where I would talk to her and try to hang out. When the day came I had chills for every period before my class with her. I just thought to myself “The worst she could say is say no” which doesn’t seem so bad. But still in my head I was riding off of my confidence that I had built up so far. I finally asked her and she
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I put on a fake smile and said it’s totally fine, but I was immediately crushed on the inside, I had put so much thought into everything that it totally killed me. I had never felt this kind of feeling ever, it’s almost like it sucked every bit of confidence that I had built myself up to right out of me. You could realize the effects very quick as my grades almost immediately dropped off. I had gone from straight A’s to C’s then I started failing classes. I didn't even want to get up for school out of just not wanting to feel bad about what I had done when I saw her. Some days I would sleep in when I wanted to, when before I had not missed a single day of school. I finally told one of my friends about what happened and they helped me get through the rest of the year by making laugh about it,

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