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Describe How To Deal With Spinelli's Knots

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There are an infinite number of problems in this world. Some of them are internal and some of them are external. Internal problems or “knots” can cause a lot of pain for one person, but that person may choose to express their pain so it hurts other people. External knots can cause pain between two or more people. As a child, one Jerry Spinelli’s knots was that he was neat and tidy. His knot was internal. I have a lot of knots in my life. Some of them are big and some of them are little, but there’s one internal knot that I really struggle with. One major knot I struggle with is my self consciousness. I sometimes feel embarrassed or ashamed about my body image. I worry about my weight a lot, even though my weight is less than the average weight for a person my height. Part of the reason why I worry about my weight is because I feel like there are expectations about how I should look and how much I should weigh. Magazines, articles, billboards, movies, and tv shows all have models in them that sort of set a standard for how you should look. One of the times when I feel most self conscious is during gym when we swim. I feel like people are judging me because I don’t have a model’s shape. Another situation where I feel self conscious is when we go on field trips for school. In fifth grade we went to Powder Ridge and each student had to write down their weight. Of course mine was a lot more than everybody else’s …show more content…

The lesson Jersey Spinelli learned is probably that nobody is perfect and no one can change that. Everybody makes mistakes. The lesson I am learning as I untie this knot is that I am my worst enemy because I judge myself more than anyone else does and I need to have self confidence. I need to be proud of myself because I am strong and healthy. No one else has the same shape as me so I need to “strut my shape.” I need to stand up for myself and anyone else who is getting bullied because of their

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