Me, Myself, and I are us from now on In our lives there is only one person that we really need to learn how to be kind to, care for, rely on, be honest with, and just overall love and respect, and that person is our own self. Then with this knowledge we are capable of sharing all that we have learned with others and giving them the things we want in return. Yet if we never learn how to respect ourselves we end up not experiencing life to the fullest. When one does not know how to appreciate oneself they cannot truly be happy. They begin to get depressed and/or lead their own life to what, according to others, is the path they should take. My experiences only prove the above. From the beginning of my sixth grade to about the time I started high school, I led a life that I had no control over. People can argue that no one can make you do something or act a certain way if you don’t want to but when everyone around you acts a certain way and you have no one else to turn to, you really have no choice. Especially as a teenager it’s not easy to stand up to your peers. All throughout my middle school years I wasn’t very self-confident and I thought that if people didn’t like me and if I didn’t have friends that I really wasn’t worth anything. Therefore my relationship with people I’ve known my entire life began to falter. I stopped caring about the friends that I had since I was young and didn’t even try to keep in touch with them. I had such little respect for myself that I didn’t want anyone around me that cared.Then at the start of my high school years I made a promise to myself that I wouldn’t let others rule my life anymore but after years of acting a certain way its hard to change. I knew inside that I was worth more and better then I gave myself credit for. The summer before my freshman year I spent a month in New Orleans with my family that lives down there. Du...
