Personal Narrative: My Experience Of A Nugget Of Coal

Allow me to introduce myself as I unravel my journey in becoming a diamond. I was a nugget of coal and I will be a sparkling diamond.

In this world, you’ll never know what wonders and precious possessions the universe can possibly offer. It is endless. Unless, your river of curiosity as well as the fountains of understanding overflows. With all honesty, I’ve been a lot of places, seen a lot of faces, but never knowing where I was.

Before, I am a nugget of coal. I never thought that it is okay to lose my train of thought in people’s eyes. I am always kept inside. I like to keep my emotions to myself; just like a coal being dug in a deep pile of hard soil. I try to make myself emotionally independent because that is what I believe I should
There are times that I want to know how and why my life is the way as it is. And igniting a spark, like a coal being chosen from the deep, I know I have to do something; something that would make me read my emotions and my feelings like a Pediatrics doctor talking to her child patients. As I find my way, there are nights that I was either crying myself to sleep. The days were short and the nights were long when I think of the things I’ve done. I’ve got scars even though they cant always be seen. So I was groundless, with no anchors to set me afloat and in place, and I am just simply lost in the sea of my own, stormy life.
It’s okay if I feel so intensely I think I am going crazy. Well, I am not. My soul is what’s missing in this society of blank citizens. It’s not that I feel too much or I hide under my blankets at night, it’s that people have become ignorant to emotions, genuine and real emotions. I’ve learned that I should not hold back. Now I understand that I’m not being too much. I am not never enough. I shouldn’t have to be a watered-down version of myself for other people.

Today, I was becoming a diamond. I am sparkling and being vocal with my feelings, not ashamed. Because life isn’t a game of who can care less.

Today, I highly value the people around me, the relationships I have built as well as protect my emotions knowing they are pristine as gold. It’s okay to feel everything at once. It is okay to share what I feel like the way my pillows and the stars at night who am I. It’s okay to lose my train of thought in their eyes.

Today, I am a diamond all shining, beautiful and young. My life has been a thrilling experience, being, a life of one who is sought for, and respected in the highest echelons of society. I made a lot of changes, but not forgetting who I was. I am a diamond for I was meant to sparkle and share the glow in