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Personal Narrative: How I Changed My Life

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Sometimes I do feel divided. I am more comfortable with myself at home than I am at school. My family and my true friends see the real me outside of school. I do not completely change who I am at school; I am just hyper when I am at home. Even though I change my actions, I do not change my beliefs. It does it matter who I am with, I will consistently tell people that I want to be a counselor for my future career.
I don 't believe that I am completely true to myself but, I am starting to get there. I used to try to be someone that everybody else wanted me to be. In middle school I would do things so I would look "cool" to my peer. Once I got into trouble for being "cool", I changed things. It first started off with me accepting myself for who

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