<p>Help with making it shorter and anything else you see. Please tell me your honest opinion. Its written to answer prompt #2 from the UC personal statements. I want to make the last paragraph longer, I just don't know what to put in it... </p>
<p>Prompt #2
Tell us about a personal quality, talent, accomplishment, contribution or experience that is important to you. What about this quality or accomplishment makes you proud and how does it relate to the person you are?</p>
<p>I was an unexplainably carefree child. There was not one care in the world for me because everything in my life was taken care. In my toddler years, my parents sent me to a daycare with a lady from my church. From what I remember, of my two years going there, I had the absolute the best time of my life with the fact that I was the only boy running around the daycare. When it was time for me to go to preschool, I remember enjoying it because I had my crushes that liked me back and I made a lot of friends. I remember that at this school I began to play jump rope a lot. I thought it was okay because my innocent thinking never saw it to be girly or feminine to do this activity and I would still play with the boys just as much.
In elementary school, I saw myself perfectly fine because I had a crush and she liked me back. I also had my two best friends, we were inseparable. Still without a worry, I enjoyed playing handball, kickball, basketball, and even a good game of football. As the years changed, I started hanging out with a group of girls. I knew all of their drama and I was even in some of it, but yet my girlfriend for that year was apart of that clique. Her being my girlfriend blinded me to see that since I hung around them so much I was starting to pick up a lot of their characteristics. In the summer, my parents sent me and my older brother to a summer program where I learned how to double-dutch. I was yet unaware that I was really starting to pick up many of the characteristics of the females I would play with. I was supported to be the only boy double-dutch player in the program because of its rarity. Later in my elementary school years was when my character started to get challenged because by then I was playing double-dutch on an daily with all the girls resulting in a lot of my male friends making fun of me by calling me a girl and trying to play girly hand games in mockery of me. All throughout the bullying, I remained the same because of the strong family I would go home to. My parents together showed unconditional love and support which gave me the strength to not let the words impact me. I never thought a feminine bone was in my body.
Starting middle school, I was always questioned if I were gay from the kids at my new school. No longer did I play double-dutch and practically all of my close friends were males but yet I was harassed with the question whether or not I was gay. I would go home and this question of me being gay would torment me. I knew for a fact I was not gay, but I began to wonder if I was supposed to be gay. This began to destroy the make-up of who I was, forcing me to act differently. I thought to myself I need to make it known to everyone that I was not gay. Concurrently, my family started to crumble right before my eyes. My mother was not happy in the marriage; my heroes argued and fought more often. My father moved out the house and disappeared for a large amount of time, my parents divorced, and I started changing my character people because I did not have that strong structural family support. I stopped trying to be the nice sweetheart that everyone knew and changed to the big, bad, and says whatever he wants Jason. I started getting in trouble with teachers saying things to them to seem bold and intimidating to my peers; it had to be known that Jason is not the soft little kid that he was in sixth grade and they could not say anything thing without repercussions.
Through out all of this, there was no one for me to talk to. I could not find a release from this torment from anyone. I constantly thought I should talk to a psychologist but with my mom going through all that she was I did not want to put more stress on her. In eighth grade I had an unexpected God encounter that changed my life completely giving me my self-respect and confidence back. That encounter restored me to be who I really am, the full of integrity and respect, always smiling, and motivated individual. My life challenge has prepared, inspired, and geared me to change the world by impacting the lives of people in any and every way possible!</p>
<p>Thanks to all who contribute!!</p>