Arezou Esmaeeli

 

Bryan Dunn

 

English 2, 6th Hour

 

3 December 2015

 

Growing Up Happy and Strong

 

             What is laughter? I’m sure you may have heard of it before, or most likely you have partaken in it. Oxford dictionary defines it as “The action or sound of laughing.” Thanks Oxford, but I’m pretty sure we all knew that. Laughter to me is so much more than merely a sound or action. I believe laughter is a main ingredient to life. Those who laugh are happier, and those who are happier tend to enjoyliving life. The key of life, is getting through it successfully. Success appears differently in the eyes of different people. However, to me success is living life with the ability to continue smiling and laughing even through the darkest times. I’m a fifteen year old girl. I’m in my sophomore year of high school and the older I get, the tougher life will be. In high school, I have already experienced scenarios that I have never been aware existed before coming here. Also, it turns out that these type of situations will not be happening any time soon.These situations will continue to happen, but you can make them more bearable by putting on a happy face!

 

              At one point in time, it seems like I had forgotten how to be happy.I happen to have met a two faced person whose goal was to bring me down. She only wanted my failure, and she would do anything to make sure I felt worthless. She would act like a friend in front of me, but my biggest enemy behind my back. She would tell me how hated I am and how every good friend I have is gossiping about me. She would repeat it many times, so that I would finally feel like nothing. Whenever I was happy, I felt like I didn’t have the right to be happy.I’d spent countless nights feeling like the world was against me. I didn’t want to go to school anymore because I was so sure that everyone I knew secretly hated me. After a few months of living through this, I finally gathered up my strength and told the school about the stuff she was doing to me. She would lie, spread rumours, backstab and stalk me. After I finally told the school, a lot of pressure was lifted off of my shoulders, but not all of it. Although the school ordered that we could have no form of contact, she made sure I noticed her existence every single day. Even though she wasn’t able to talk to me anymore, I knew she was spreading countless rumours. I felt weak and all I wanted to do was cry. Until, I remembered what my brother told me many years before. He told me that if I smile, even when I wasn’t happy, I would begin to feel happy. I tried it. Not only did I regain the ability to laugh freely, I also gained a lot of my strength back. I was able to finally go through school, and disregard every lie she has ever told me about myself and anyone else.

 

              Although she may still be spreading rumours about me, I do not care because I’ve managed to gain the strength needed to continue on in life. People can look at me now and see that I am like any normal, happy person. This experience I have happened is just the first of it because I know much more will happen in universities and the workplace. Now I know that in order to maintain my sanity, all I must do is put on a happy face. My main ingredient to getting through life, has helped me a lot not only this scenario.