Why Elementary School Is Important To Me

When you are little you don’t have a care in the world. You’re not too worried about how you act, what you look like, or what other people think about you. But even at a young age what you can say can really harm someone, and even stay with them for the rest of their life. Elementary school was a safe place to me. I loved going to school everyday and seeing all the people in my class. Everyday I would be loud, and outgoing, I would wave to everyone in the hall, even when they wouldn’t wave back. I just loved being around all my peers and telling them how I felt. Not once did I rethink what I was doing everyday, I thought it was normal, I thought that’s how all kids acted. Throughout school I was a loner, but I didn’t really realize it till I reached fifth grade. I realized that I didn’t have as many friends as everyone else did. I didn’t really understand at the time because no matter what I would always try to talk to people, and play with other kids at recess, or sit with different people at lunch. For some reason that never worked for me, the other kids still wouldn’t talk to me unless I talked to them, and even then they would ignore me. I was never upset about it because i still couldn’t understand why no one would talk to me, or why i didn’t have any friends, until one day. It was just an ordinary Friday. I started my day off …show more content…
During our little burst of laughter we passed a lunch table, I guess it wasn’t just any lunch table it was the lunch table claimed by the most popular kids in school, and what made them even scarier was that they were 6th graders. As soon as we pass them there was this moment of silence where i heard one of the girls say “They are so weird” as she looked at us. A bullet zipped through my heart and I feel to the ground immediately. I didn’t know what to do, or what to say, so I just went