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Have you ever been in an
awkward stage? Well I’ve been there.
Every teens experience that awkward
stage but I think it is more common with girls
especially in their puberty stage that makes
their confidence grind down; it takes 3 to 4
years before you can return to that typical
teenager but for me it took 7 long years
before I got back to the usual me and
bloomed into a lady.Yes it’s really hard to
be a teenager because it’s not magic and
it takes years to bloom.
When I was a kid others would
thought me to be the cutest kid in town
until puberty striked me. The signs of my
transition from being a child to being a
teen came out and started as early as
when I was ten years old. I started getting
acne, overgrown feet, often a mess of
glasses and thin legs. In short I really looked
awkward.
My awkward stage was tough on
me, although I am friends with the
“famous” girls of our school. I always
thought that I dont get much attention as
with them. I always get teased by my
classmates for my looks and that’s the only
time I got their attention but that was
painful. During that time my self-esteem
was nearing to the ground and I was
always self-conscious. My awkward stage
lasted for 7 years and when I was sixteen I
realized that the marks of my awkward
stage started disappearing and I was slowly
emerging into a lady that even I didn’t
expect that I would bloom so much.
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Although I bloomed into somehow a
fine-looking girl, I’m not as beautiful as
other girls, but the important thing I learned
during my awkward stage is that I need
to be a better version of myself, not for
others, but for my own happiness.
When I go back
in time, I will not
change how I
was in my awkward stage because it makes me
who I am now that makes myself
complete and
whenever I see
my old pictures
and my current I
couldn’t be happier that an ugly
duckling can bloom into a beautiful swan.