My Autobiography
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I am 16 years old. I I was born in December of 1989 at a Hospital on the Northwestern side inChicago, Illinois. In April 2006, I moved back to Humboldt Park an a 3 bedroom apartment not too far from EXCEL Academy/Orr Campus which is the school that I attended in September 2006 as a Sophomore I am a very sweet person to many people and I am a loyal and outgoing person to all my friends. I am a very sensitive girl when it comes down to things that really breaks my heart, at some points I can be a person that’s hard to understand or that’s confused most of the time and if you ask me I couldn’t give you one reason why, because that’s just the type of person that I am.
I have very low self-esteem, why I don’t know, but people seem to see more in me then I have ever seen in myself. I am very spoiled and I get whatever I want but not when I want it. I am nice but I can be very mean if you make me mad at certain points. Life means everything to me and at certain points life means nothing to me, at times I just wish that I was never here or never even thought of, why, because that’s just how l feel about myself at certain points. I am a very sad person in life, not saying that I’ve never been happy it’s just how I feel about myself. It’s like nothing could ever be the way that I want it to be. I take my life very seriously especially when it comes down to school, education and my grades as well as my future.
I really don’t have many friends because they are either jealous or they are very phony. In school, I might play around but that’s after I’ve finished all my work and handed it in before class is over. There’s really not a problem except just the neighborhood that I stay in which is close to Humboldt Park but not to far from Garfield Park and both places are very dangerous which is why I think I am a Hero. I think that I am Hero because for one there are kids, teens and even grown folks who hasn’t gotten their grammar, high school, or even college diploma and bachelors degree which is sad to see, so that’s why I have to step up and show them that education is important to me in every way.
I think and feel that the most challenging part about my event is me having to be a stronger and well-educated person to challenge those who are not. They hate the fact that I am trying to make something out of myself and try to hold me back or explain to me bad advice about my education. They ask me what am I trying to prove. This is the smell like a strong weak smoke that’s hard to get rid of, which means it is hard for people of all ages to stop these ungrateful sad happenings that they’ve gotten themselves into.
It’s a sad and awful picture that literally breaks my heart when I look at people who dropped out of school and haven’t received their education the way they should have. I see teens and kids out there just roaming around doing nothing, some already dropped out school or getting pregnant at a young age acting like it’s nothing and making it seem like a good thing as well as pretending that everything is okay. It fills my eyes with tears of sadness of all kinds.
They stopped believing in themselves. They felt down about certain things that they just don’t know can be fixed in a matter of time and work. The one thing that I thought I was going to lose was my education because there were so many people losing theirs. I had no clue whether I was going to make it or not after I seen adults, kids, and teens of all ages with no education and feeling down about themselves. To me it was very sad seeing so many people who didn’t believe in their education or themselves.
I think that I’ve gained a lot and I am very, very proud of myself and all the struggles and challenges that I’ve had to get through. I think that you have to make a mistake or do wrong to learn in life and make the right choices. I’ve gained a lot but I haven’t gained it all until I get my high school diploma, college degree, and a well paying job. After that I think that I will be well-rewarded, and achieved the best of all.
