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Help Me Be Me

College Essay Rough Draft C, or Why Therapy is Worth It

Help Me Be Me

Cloud10

Health & Fitness

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2016

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

**Warning might make you sad! It's a story that will ground you to the earth and the scope of life, more than make you laugh. With that...This is the story of the moment my entire life changed – I am posting it to give you hope if you suffer from a trauma. Because I have grown to a place of safety and happiness – past mine. I can only see this progress, now in the process of reading it aloud – and not quivering in my voice, or being triggered by it. It doesn’t mean that this story doesn’t mean a great deal to me – it’s just the opposite. It’s that this story – for me – is not something I cannot talk about, anymore. The person it’s about is still very special to me – and will always be a part of me. This is my college essay – and a story about one of the best friends I’ll ever have on this earth. I hope you enjoy. xox Sarah May Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, friends. It's

0:05.8

Lila, friends. It's Sarah May. This is a, I don't even know what it is. I guess it's a,

0:11.8

it's a, it's power up. So I am looking for a form because I'm applying to a

0:21.6

master's program and I found my college essay like when I first went to

0:28.8

college and it's actually a rough draft is probably the first draft of my college essay that I sent to my grandma and it says thanks for reading it

0:37.3

Grandma this is my very rough with like four outlines

0:47.0

four underlines, draft, exclamation point. Rough draft, C.

0:50.0

So I wanted to read it mainly because I think when you I think when we're in our lives and we're living them

1:00.9

We really judge ourselves and we are like we perceive whatever we do as usually a lot

1:08.6

worse than it actually is and usually all we can see is how it should have been better.

1:16.8

And retrospect gives you such a clear view

1:21.2

on who you were.

1:22.2

It's the same reason that when you see a photo of yourself,

1:24.7

years later, you're like, oh I was so adorable and I was so unhappy or I was so self-conscious.

1:35.0

You get this like distant lens. So I thought I'd read it to you.

1:37.0

Just because I...

1:39.0

I thought it'd be interesting.

1:41.0

Uh, here we go.

1:43.8

Sarah Bates College essay, Rough Draft C.

1:48.3

Everything changes in the blink of an eye.

1:50.4

Suddenly your golden grams don't have that special touch of honey and those jokes that always cracked you up seem to have no humor

1:57.6

For me life took a radical dive into what would only read about in newspapers or heard about on the nightly news.

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