Feeling like an ugly duckling was never a good feeling. Being picked on was also a non-good feeling. Being a teenager can be hard, starting to care about what people say makes it even harder , and being insecure also brings its baggage. I’ve always felt that there was someone who looked better than me and was actually better than me from middle up until high school. In middle school comes bullies and with bullies there are victims and bystanders, I was once the victim but now in high school I was the bystander. I never let anyone get bullied because I knew what it felt like, I would always stick up for someone no matter how big the bully was. I made people feel great about themselves even if I did not receive it in return. Being this way I believe that I started to listen to my own advice and gained more confidence than before.