Through my first three years of high school, I lived a life where even though I was seen as a leader among students and friends, I was also a follower of society’s norms. This just proves that no matter what position of power you have in society, you will always be a pet to the norms. As time passed in high school, I was very bond to my social life, always being around a group of people all the time was very normal to me. The definition of “feeling lonely” was something I couldn’t relate to. Grades being higher than ever and becoming arguably the most popular student around, life for me was going great. But there was always a feeling of emptiness that was inside me that I could not explain. Nonetheless, I would find myself not paying attention to this and kept living the life I lived. When it came to faith, I would mostly hide the life I was currently living from my family, and whenever I was around family, I was the person they liked me to be. Living a two-sided life, I soon found out was not the life I wanted. I was hiding who I was in society from my family and hiding who I was in my family from society.
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Ibrahim, this excerpt shows a deep (metacognitive!) self-awareness, as well as some compassion for your younger self— you see now what motivated you then, what drove you to lead a double life, and what pain or unease you felt you had to conceal.