Accepting Oneself

The poem "Accepting Oneself" spoke about getting over the problems that you face in life and learning to be yourself no matter what the world may throw at you. I chose this poem because it felt like I had written it. Every line was a statement that I could relate to. After my mother passed away, my life drastically changed. The old me was no more. After that, I felt like my situation kept getting worse. I was forced to leave my home state of 14 years at the end of my sophomore year in high school. Junior and senior years are suppose to be the best, but mine were not. Shortly after my mother passed, my grandfather died a few days before Christmas. One of my friends collapsed and died while jogging after graduating and before turning 18. Today, I just learned that one of my mother's best friends that I was also close to just passed away on Friday. I feel like God made me his target to practice death on. I can't take another funeral. It seemed like everyone I was close to began to slip away permanently. All these problems have frustrated me as said in the poem. All these complications with death brought complications into college and into my personality. Though I had lived in Georgia for the majority of my life, I still had to pay out of state tuition because I hadn't graduated from a Georgia school. Tuition is now a big problem and I may have to take a year off to get in state tuition. I'm also more shy around new people than I once was, but now, I need to face my problems and learn to be myself again instead of hiding behind everything that troubles me.

The poem can be found at quizilla.teennick.com/poems/7345746/accepting-oneself