first draft of the Language and Literacy Narrative

Armando Aguilar

9/9/2025

English 11000

Throughout my experience as being a human being, I have always been someone who cares about others. I have always been someone who respects people. Though, I am usually a shy person with good intentions. When I was younger, I had always had a determined mindset that I wish people noticed when I was trying. I have always listened to my elders and followed instructions. Even if things can be stressful, I have mostly tried my best to do my best in school. The problems that almost let me down was the students not being serious about their behaviors and future. I have noticed that many students always play around and not think about their future and their mindset. The amount of pressure that has given me that some people tried to discourage me from becoming a better person. I grew up in a school where people made immature actions and never met their true potential. Of course, many students have the potential to find what they want to be in life. The majority of my thoughts of being a good student is the amount of respect and appreciation that people around me have been through together and unfortunately, many students didn’t notice how much we’ve been through. We have potential to get work together without causing problems by complaining about how school can be bad for people who don’t want to think about their future. They need to realize that our parents sacrificed their own time to love us and get us to school on time so we can help them in the future. I took advantage of that and I had strong determination to finish school and get in college to make my parents satisfied. I understand that life can have negative outcomes with strict rules, social norms, and difficulties of living conditions. I understand that we should be positive and never resist the rules that we should follow or else we can create problems in front of the public view and for me, I am not here to create problems. As I progressed to high school, I became more sheer since all the problems in elementary and middle was mostly students making problems, I was unfortunately part of the meeting where the school was responding to the incident where students didn’t felt free to do things on recess where they are not allowed to use cellphones at all and during fire drills, they always joked around because they used their cellphones to post the fire drill practice which it wasn’t necessary to post. Students were very mad at school that they had a strict rule of taking away phones in classrooms, auditoriums, cafeteria, gyms, and recess unless they get permission from their instructors. Many staff were harsh on the students including me for no reason since in middle school I didn’t use my cellphone at all due to not having the internet at the time. It was a bad intervention where the staff had to call home if a student uses their phones or breaks other rules. Also in middle school, I didn’t have many friends, but at least I was still determined to become a resilient student. I didn’t let negativity bring me down like it did many years ago. I became stronger and became someone to respect by others. Due to this negative experience, I am still suffering from bad social anxiety due to people who are like my age/generation are becoming more toxic and negative towards others. It may be due to their past experiences and trauma which I do understand unfortunately. Of course, we live in an unfortunate world where it is very overwhelming that our emotions can handle it. Throughout high school, it felt different than in middle school since in high school, we were more free than staff were holding our hands since I was in my early teenage years. I took advantage of it and became successful in high school. The students were more mature, the staff didn’t hold our hands much, and we were treated like young adults and respected. I wanted to make people proud, I have a good mindset and I have the intention to obey the rules. Even if it hurts, I will need to smile and move on. I do understand that many people are not lucky to have the same mindset as me since people can live in harder conditions where determination can be impossible. It’s hard to see people suffer, but at least become an ally or a friend. There are good people out there that want to understand life but unfortunately, bad things can happen to them. Unfortunately, bad things can happen to good people. I struggled mentally with anxiety and pain that people have to suffer like violence, overwhelmed and loss of self-esteem. But I have to acknowledge that it is part of life. I wanted to become a better person as an adult when I was in college. I want to win people’s respect and become useful with their time. The amount of love and support for my friends and family is unbreakable. I did meet great people that helped me with this journey, I also helped them. I will do whatever it takes to to make them feel valuable and motivated.

Final draft of the Language and literacy narrative

Armando Aguilar

9/11/2025

ENG 19000

What I want to grow from my previous work “Translation 1” is one of my best resources that I was provided and at least a sufficient amount of good intentions from the things I have. I wanted to maintain a healthy relationship with other people and prevent causing problems with them. It’s sad to see people not appreciating what they own and what people did for them. I know that in school, people have been always complaining about the norms and expectations that seem very unfair to them. For example, getting ready for school, disrespecting the teacher for being “boring” and etc. I am not that person, when I was a kid in elementary and middle school, I wasn’t much of a popular person. I don’t disrespect my teacher since they’re helping us to grow. I know it’s boring, but it’s the way. I grew up developing good intentions of being a good person and doing my best in school to prove that I want to learn and share wisdom with others. I was determined to endure pain and suffering from what other people want to bring problems into our lives. After and during school, I’ve seen incidents where many parents have been judged just because some people are not hispanics where the majority of people at my school are Hispanics. Many people with different races are surrounded by Hispanics. With that, we should be respectful to other people, regardless of race since they are also people and human. Some people may be traumatizing, while some may be remarkable. I do understand that many people are also suffering with this because other people are sometimes the cause of these problems. It was shocking that many people would have similar connections to what I wrote in my personal narrative and how much they are trying to maintain determination. Unfortunately, there are always bad people in life, while good people have obstacles to find their true potential. We have our own families to have as resources since they can help us to improve and maintain a good life. Unfortunately, many bad things can happen to good people, and that could cause problems with relationships and building confidence. It’s hard to focus on things since lots of people make sacrifices for us and of course we need to appreciate their efforts. Not everyone is the same. I do understand that we are being tested on how we would react to people on what they are trying to convey. In my perspective, I managed to find what I think is going to work for me. I do want to achieve as much as I can. I do want to help out people, I do want to continue to work hard, and I would always appreciate the things that people did for me. Of course, I do suffer from social anxiety and it prevents me from making an effort on my stuff. But I am a submissive person. I do what I am being told and don’t cause problems. When I see people suffer, I can tell that they are trying, but some people may be discouraged by problems like discrimination, colorism, and stereotypes. Which still exists to this day. It’s sad that many people would be pushed away just because of their personalities and appearances. I do respect people for who they are and not to judge them based on those traits. I acknowledged that people living in this world are all suffering, regardless of race, ethnicity, and religion. We are all suffering from this world because it is about learning and educating ourselves from pain and experiences. It’s unfortunate but it’s true. It’s not like “it’s some perfect world” but instead, we make sacrifices to help out others too. Everyone has a hero to help them get through life. Well at least someone has to be part of their path of growth. I was sometimes told that I am unique and considerate due to my giving of wisdom and to be honest. I’m glad I was able to give out wisdom to people that I do care about. Sure, I may have been sacked for their problems, but at least I wasn’t contributing to more problems and making it worse. I usually think carefully so I can maintain a good conversation. I want to grow from people’s struggles and what can I do to make them feel more valuable because at the end of the day, we all get a chance to find personal growth. From my narrative, many people from my past were not in the same mental state as I am now. I do understand that life can be overwhelming and very stressful and serious. But as a human being, I will do my best to maintain a healthy and decent life. I want to maintain a determined mindset and to continue to work hard and help others. We all have roles to contribute in life and make a great impact as much as we can. I understand that I shouldn’t let people bring me down. Instead I should stay away from their problems and find people who are also on a path of finding a connection to help grow positive mindsets and create a better future.