You Are Bigger Than What ’ s Making You
ANXIOUS
BY SUSIE MOORE
HEALTH & WELLNESS
When I was in high school , there was a cool girl a few years older than me who didn ’ t like me . Her name was Rosa .
She once shrieked “ Fake !” at me in the hallway when we passed each other between classes . She and her Marlboro Light – smoking posse gave me dirty looks whenever I saw them . And I pretended not to notice . A friend of mine whose sister was in said posse told me that Rosa said I was “ so dumb and annoying .”
As a thirteen-year-old , I was upset and confused . What did I do wrong ? I had never even spoken to Rosa — how could I annoy her ? And how could I make this reason to dread school go away ?
I avoided her to minimize annoying her .
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