The Key to Happiness That Was Once Broken

When I was in elementary school, I was the average kid: playing, laughing, and living. I had friends to hang out with all the time and school became one of my happy places. When my first day of middle school began, all the happiness I once had inside slowly faded, and my personality began to crumble. My smile was no more; instead, it was part of an emotionless face that wouldn’t budge even a single muscle. My body was sluggish and reluctant toward the prison that was my school. My eyes welled up with tears as I constantly heard taunts all around me because of my appearance and nothing more. This was partially my fault, as doing nothing and being a “good student” would supposedly save me from the other students that would torment me again and again. After three whole years of the bullying, I finally moved to another state when I finally reached high school, and I found my key to happiness once more. I actually had friends that I could rely on and laugh with and they thought the same. I was happy to arrive at school once again and participated in extracurricular and co-curricular activities. Because of the friends and teachers I gained, I was able to be the person I used to be, and I transformed into a light in other people’s lives. Some claimed that I saved them, but I owe them for bringing me salvation from my past. Everyone has a key of their own; however, that key can unlock the lights in others around them that create a chain reaction to create even more lights that can shine as bright as the stars in the pitch black night sky.