Regrets :

Every day, people are judged for being who they are. Every day there is someone out there who
feels like there is nobody. Every day, someone wants to give up on life because they are being
bullied or because of abuse. Many people lose people because I judge them and because they
can ́t be who they are without being judged. No one should ever regret who they are because
other people are wrong. I know what regret is because there are things I regret every day, and I
should not regret the things I regret. I lost my friend due to not having anyone there for her at
home because she could never see the people who did care about her. It hurts to lose the
people you love to judge or something they regret.

My story is self-deception- denying my sexuality.

My story of self-deception was about my friends and me. For the longest time, people would ask
me if I was gay. This happened from the second to the eighth. In the second grade, I did not
even know what gay was. I did not find out what gay was till the 4th grade. But at that time, I
never knew who I would deny it over and over again. It was till the 7th grade that I started
getting bullied about it. At that time, being bullied made it harder and harder to come out till I
moved schools, and even then, I still did not know who I was; it took me till my first year of high
school to come out as gay since then my life has gotten better and better. But the one thing I
have learned from denying that I was gay for as long as I did is I never hide from my fears and
always find a way to get through those fears. Now somebody in my story was my friends and
me. At the time, I wanted to tell the truth about who I was and not hide it from the world as I did
for so long. But even in that time of self-deception, I know who I was, so now I know that coming
out is ten times easier than it looked.