Personal Narrative: Why Do People Have To Struggle With Anxiety

The saying “Sometimes you don’t get two chances” applies in my thoughts more often. My life shouldn’t revolve around other's opinions, which is how I sit before you today. In the last year I’ve done so many things only I stood in my way of before. Volunteering more and just taking more risks is something I value much more now, as I told Lilly “Yolo.” I’m not as meek, although I’m still pretty quiet sometimes, but I know for myself; I’m getting out into the world much

I went a week without speaking to him. He would send me messages and would call and I wouldn’t respond. I was sick of it. Here is where the RESPONDING WITH FORGIVENESS comes in. One day I decide to respond and let him know how I felt.

If he were living normally, he would most likely become bored and depressed. In a letter to his brother, McCandless writes, “I know that I could not bear the routine and humdrum of the life that you are forced to lead. I don’t think I could ever settle down. I have known too much of the depths of live already, and I would prefer anything to an anticlimax” (Krakauer 87). This means that McCandless would rather live an exciting life and would hate to live a normal one.

I always thought that I was “too awkward” and that I wouldn’t be able to “fit in.” Keeping to myself and to a few friends would be the best option for me. Or so I thought. Over the years, I had let many opportunities pass in fear of being different. My choices left me with regret to the point that all I can think about is how I should’ve said yes.

They are too afraid to be judged by the individuals around them because of whatever flaws they have. I believe that people won’t change. If they changed their character and corrected their flaws, it is not their own selves but just a new character they created out of pity and pressure which will also happen to have its own flaws. When I was young, I have always been too happy and active and often times it became a nuisance for the people around me. That has always been one of my flaws.

There are people out there who try so dang hard to get everything going the way they want to no matter what it is. Sometimes they try to hard and end up making it even worse for them. People who try way too hard to get things in control normally get angry because the bad things in there life isn't controlled by them and they can't change the outcome of what happens. For example if you were date a guy who you really like for awhile and you thought it was going to last then out of nowhere he said he needed to take a break from you

The narrator and Sonny had a pretty big fight and they did not to see each other for months. The narrator put this in the story to give the readers insight on how Sonny and him fought. This is just some of the textual evidence of anger between the narrator and

Before coming to Job Corps, I had days when I was so depressed, I just stop doing what was right and from that point on, the street was the only I saw myself. The family was my enemy, friends were no longer there, at least the ones I thought I had. I didn’t want to talk to anyone because I had nothing positive to say. I can honestly say my biggest mistake I made as youngster, was me giving up on school. I could have cared less about all the wrong I have done.

There will be days when I’m late to work and get hollered at by my boss, but I’ll have to accept it because that 's how the world goes round. There will be days where my anxiety decides it wants to take over and I’ll shake on the ground. Or the days where I can 't take it anymore because my Crohn’s disease is not my fault and I’ll drowned in my tears and the screams of “I’m only human!”. Even the days where I can’t forget that the paths I’m choosing for my life are things my family and friends don’t agree with, and the only thing keeping me from giving up is because there’s no point to continuing if all I’m doing is keeping others happy.

These included others ' needs always coming before my own, the world being an extremely dangerous place where others would always hurt me in some way, that I would continue to lose all of those I cared for and would continue to be rejected from all new situations, that something was profoundly defective/wrong with me, and that I deserved to be punished continually as my being was incompetent, unlovable, shameful, and in need of constant punishment. Over the past few years, as I have worked through many of my emotional and psychological issues, I have lessened my negative core beliefs. However, many of these beliefs have only lessened to mild/moderate negative core beliefs. Although I am a much happier, positive individual, I know that there is still much work to be done in order to have a healthier outlook on the

“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships” (Helen Keller) Elizabeth Oster is walking evidence of the truthfulness of this quote. If one saw Elizabeth Ostler walking down the street they would describe her as cheerful. What other may say would be that she has big happy blue eyes and long brown hair. Her smile can warm the air around her. She walks with a bounce in her step and has a laugh that could make the hardest of souls’ smile.