“In middle school, we are all so damn insecure. It was the worst time for me, really destructive, like slapping myself across the face but loving it. Now I have to be an adult and change myself. I have to be a bigger person.”

Meaning

This reads as an honest admission of how fragile identity can feel in early adolescence. It can be taken to mean that the speaker sees that period as self-punishing and chaotic, and now feels pressure to outgrow it by acting with more steadiness. It lands when someone looks back at school years and recognizes how much insecurity shaped their behavior.

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Originally said in English.

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