This may just be the most ‘average young woman in university with a job’ post you have ever read but please, stay-tuned for a summary of my semi-boring/very average life. I am not much of a writer, but I like to think that just about anyone can write about themselves. That being said, I have always thought of myself as extremely average and not very peculiar at all.

Hi, my name is Brianna and I am a forth year Communications student as well as a part time Recreation Supervisor at a City of Ottawa community center. In my spare time, I coach a girls basketball team and enjoy making videos with my friends. Interesting right? Well, although you may be intrigued by my super exciting, mind boggling, totally out of the ordinary situation, this will not be the focus of this autobiography. These are the things that people can see on the outside, whether they really know me or not. What I think describes me best, would be the things that can’t be seen from the outside.

When I was growing up, I was an extremely outgoing child. I was that elementary school kid that could not sit still or stop talking. I always had a natural ability to make friends as my parents always taught me to respect others and put myself in someone else’s shoes. I had a tendency to almost make “too many friends” as my mom would say and my birthday parties were always [awesome] out of control. However, this quality did not stay as prominent as I grew up. Seeming extremely friendly and social on the outside, I have always struggled with horrible anxiety and low self-esteem. These not-so-flashy qualities have always followed me in different ways. As I got older, my anxiety and self-esteem issues seem to attach themselves to everything I did and eventually took over my life when I was entering high school. My anxiety was the main culprit.

Don’t get to sympathetic for me though. Even though I struggled with anxiety at a difficult age, this only made me a stronger and a more giving person today. In fact, I feel like my anxiety has actually really helped me to become more organized, calculated and responsible. It also makes me a very realistic person, which isn’t the worst quality to have. To describe myself today, I would simply say that I am the girl that always smiles when you need something, laughs when things aren’t funny because I would feel just awful if someone felt bad, but also panics when I’m not 5 minutes early to class.

To slowly bring this autobiography to a close, I wanted to summarize my ‘outside’ life as it is now. I still live with my family that consists of my mom, my dad, my sister and my dog, Tiggy. I am saving up to eventually move to Toronto and pursue my love of film and video making. I hope to take what I’ve learned in Communications and apply it to this love of creating. With only this semester and the next to go, I am excited to finish my program and continue exploring my interests and myself.

I recently saw this metaphor that I thought really applied to myself and would be a great summary for this blog post. However, since I like to be original and I made a big deal about myself being average and boring, I have to make my own so you don’t think I’m really as boring as I think I am. I like to think of myself as a Christmas present. On the outside, I may have boring wrapping paper that is not wrapped right and has a million pieces of tape holding it together. Yet on the inside, I am a surprise, mostly a good one but maybe it wasn’t exactly what you wanted. OK, stop this is so cheesy. Anyways, I am very proud of the person I am and I do think that when people really get to know me, I am super awesome on the inside but I still have flaws, just like everyone else. So, there you have it. Perhaps this wasn’t the most boring/average ‘young woman in university with a job’ story you’ve ever read (or maybe it was?).