With every year that you grow older, you face more and more challenges, these challenges are different for everybody. Getting older and the teen years can bring about a lot of change. Turning 15 might have looked like a simple change of numbers but it brought along a lot of complexities, interestingly complicating the simple life that I had!
From the start of this year, a never-ending wave of change has been washing over me. We recently moved into a new house and my parents gave me the choice to go to a new school. With a heavy heart, I said yes. Going to this new school has been quite a massive roller coaster. With every new school, it is the first day that decides whether or not you will enjoy the school. Surprisingly I was able to make a few good friends and it helped ease the fall of moving here.
Back in my old school, I loved to chat and have a good time, but here it was a null option. I decided to retreat to the library. My love for books had always kept me occupied and soon i started finding company in the library. There were multiple card games available to play so I was able to spend my recess and lunch doing something. Unlike most of the boys in my grade, I wasn’t into sports and that made it difficult to fit in. But with the expansive imagination of authors from around the world, I was able to forget the struggles and moved on.
While books were little cases that held the messages of people from another world, I found that I could no longer ignore the world around me. This forced me to open up. With all the time in class and group activities, I was able to get to know my peers a little better. I was able to talk to them without having the barrier of not knowing them. With school work being the bridge between the world that I wanted to be in and the world that existed around me, I started interacting with my peers on an academic level. It really did help that everyone around me was friendly and willing to cooperate.
Attending a catholic school meant we took a look at religious topics. During the course of the year I was able to hear people through what they believed and through the morals they upheld. It was old familiar activities like this that made me turn a new leaf. I still reminisce about the life that I used to lead, but now I have something positive to look forward to each day when I come to school, just like I did in my previous school.
To this day, I still keep going to the library to borrow more and more books. Even through wind and rain, my love for books is like an undying flame. The little sparks of fantasy have given me positivity- the positivity to leap over the hurdle, the hurdle of trying to fit in with the people whom I would call my own. I will never forget what tomes of imagination and real world stories have done for me at this age of FIFTEEN.
Writer : Ethan
Grade : 9 (Year 2022)
Place : Sydney, Australia
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