Compare and Contrast - Essay Example

I am also one of those people who have changed over the course of years. When I look back at my past when I was young, I see that my life has forced me to convert into someone new- someone whom I did not know at all. Today, this is an entirely new ‘me’. And to be honest, this new ‘me’ has enabled me to face the troubles of my life. In this paper, I intend to compare and contrast the person which I was when I was younger to the person which I am today. When I was a child, I lacked confidence.

I hated showing up to groups of people and I was not social. I wanted to participate in speech contests and debates, and I wanted to sing. But I could not because I did not have that courage to go up to the stage and confront the whole audience. I was afraid of not being able to do things correctly. I was the most capable and most studious student in my class but my teachers never preferred me to be nominated as a monitor or a prefect of the class. Everybody knew that I lacked guts. And I hated that.

Now, let’s skip some years and take a look at me today. Yesterday, I hosted a game show that was held in my community. People applauded and praised that I led the show very well. I can bet that if my school friends were there to see me hosting the show, they would have fainted. Today, I am the most courageous person in my neighborhood and people come to me for advice and suggestions. People want to be friends with me. People think of me as an outspoken individual who know how to put his thoughts to words.

Today, I can argue well. I can fight, and I am the same person who had fled away from the place many years back when a school friend glared at me with anger. I myself wonder at this transformation. But if I quote the incidents that happened in the years that I have skipped in this narration, then the reader will not be astonished. My life has been my greatest teacher and I thank it for teaching me some of the most necessary lessons of existence. When I was younger, I liked to hide my feelings.

I was an introvert. I had great difficulty expressing my emotions. I could not tell a person what I felt about him. I never told my parents that I loved them for all they did to bring me up. I was shy. I was timid. I did not have the courage to ask my dad for something I direly needed. I did not have the guts to tell my friends that I had an idea of going out for a movie with them. I always nodded positively to what they said, without arguing. I had no opinions of my own. I was a yes-boss kind of a person.

This attitude of mine inflicted great harms to me. Let’s skip the ‘teacher years’ again and look at me now. Some days back, I sent bunches of flowers to my mom to tell her that I loved her. It was me who had arranged that game show which I talked about earlier. The manager had liked the idea when I proposed to arrange a game show. He knew that I was confident enough to host it. Two days back, I got into an argument with a friend and finally convinced him to what I was saying. And I am not astonished, reader.

This is what my life has taught me. This is what my life has turned me into. Life has not been a bed of roses but the lesson it has taught me, I bet, is better than a bed of roses. I have not told the reader what I experienced during the years I have skipped in this narration because that would not be interesting for the reader. However, I want to state that I have extracted the best out of every experience in the form of lessons and