Coping with Change

Change is a difficult thing. It can cause many anxieties and stresses in an individual’s life. This past year has been very difficult on me. I have had to deal with a lot of change in my life this past year. The biggest change I encountered was graduating high school and moving away for college. College has opened up many new doors in my life. Growing up, I always had my family to rely on. I could always count on my family to love me when other people might not have shown the same emotion. I could come home and know that I would not need to worry about feeding myself or having to take care of cleaning the house. This all changed when got to college. I was suddenly thrown into an atmosphere where I was the only person I could count on. I was suddenly responsible for cleaning up the kitchen and bathrooms. I had to do my own laundry for the first time and there was nobody to remind me to sit down and complete my homework. All of these instances were a big change for me, but I found ways to cope with these changes. At first, these changes were difficult to deal with because I now could only rely on myself. No one else was going to cuddle me when I need emotional support, I was on my own and to far away from home to receive the same support I once had. When dealing with change, it is important that an individual finds strengths in themselves and can find a daily routine to ease into things. I was able to do this and, slowly, the transition from high school to college much easier to deal with.

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