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Personal Narrative: My Headband That Changed My Life

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Everyone as a kid has something that offers them security, for most kids it's a blanket, a binki (pacifier), or a bear but for me, I felt most safe with a headband on top of my head. As a kid i had over a hundred headbands ranging in various sizes and colors. When I was little I was known for my headbands, you can ask anyone who went to saint james they would tell you that I wore a different one everyday. There was one teacher who would always tell me my headbands were my, “crowns”and she was right, they made me who i am. To me, headbands were more than just a casual accessory, it sounds dumb but they were the one area where i could express myself and still stay within the dresscode of my catholic school. As a young child, I was extremely attached to my mom and really never wanted to leave her side. …show more content…

I wore a headband for nine years straight and then one day stopped all at once. I remember being in eighth grade and my favorite teacher saying, “so you're going to highschool next year, you still gonna wear those headbands there?” before he had asked me I had never thought about it. The headbands had become such a big part of my life i had never realized I could make the decision to not wear them. So I thought more about it I realized I didn't need the headbands anymore, I had grown up and I didn’t need the security and courage they gave me. I remember the first day of highschool, I put a small headband in my bag just in case if I got scared and felt like I needed it but I never took it out. To some, they may just be metal crescents wrapped in cloth, but those headbands comforted me throughout my childhood, and are always a reminder of both my potential and how much I have grown as a person in such a short period of

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