About Lee Jarratt

A very mini biography

Born on the 10th January 1991, maybe it was the worst thing ever to happen to Earth, who knows? I was born and raised in the Hull area most of my life (Still here now), I probably had a very happy start-to-a-childhood, all was well, got through Primary School by age 11 with moderate grades and believe it or not, Primary School were the best years.

Year 7

When I moved on to Secondary School, things were a little different, I don’t know why, it was just different. This was one of the biggest changes in my life, to how I acted, what I did and how I lived. Year 7 was the best year out of all the years at high school which ranges from Years 7 to 11, Everything, I guess was not that bad.

Years 8 to 11 though was when I started to get fed up of High School really early, truth is, I hated it. I just felt like I didn’t fit in there as much as I thought I would do. Friends fall out, new friends come along and I developed new interests over the years in High School (Not mentioning the most memorable moments in High School, Some were really great). But, things went by really really slow..

A New Me?

The time came when I finally left high school, did the whole Prom thing (Which was a really good night) but my results.. Let’s just say I was disappointed in myself, and no doubt my family did. But another batch of new found friends that I made in early year 10 after the others just faded away, were supportive about everything and had faith in me that I still could get into College and do this.

Talked to Connexions (An organization to help out teens with career advise etc), then rang College, got everything out of the way and got into BTEC First Diploma for IT Practitioners course, which no doubt was one of the best, and one of the worst decisions I ever made but I’ll talk about that later).

Somethings that needed to be let out

2007 has got to be the best year I’ve had so far in my life, hands down. The start of the year was actually okay, and it just got better. School ended with a bang, Prom was awesome and was a fantastic night, I loved it! Every night after Prom I was out with all my friends, just having fun, drinking and having Barbeque’s all the time. We had a very strong grouped friendship, about 8 of us altogether in our little group, but I was closer to one girl, and i’ve never been that close to someone in my life ever. It was really awkward though (I’m not going to go into what happened, how we met and so on) but we ended up been really close friends, and possible could have been something else if I made all the right decisions. She helped me come out to my friends and family too (I came out as Bi then but I don’t know who to be now, theres always someone who won’t like it etc) and that was one emotional night. But i’ve known about how I feel etc since around Year 8 or 9 anyway so it’s obviously not a phase!

Anyway, so by the time we are all at College, Sixth Form and Apprenticeships etc, we were still a good group but I guess because of our quick change in directions (life wise), everyone, I guess got a little shook up about something and 1 or 2 people just left and just weren’t with us anymore. Me and this girl we’re still good friends too, but this was the start of these little arguments. By the time the clock stuck 12 (this sounds like a fairy tale story..) on New Year, as soon as it was January 1st 2008, my life and myself hit rock bottom. Everything changed, the first 2 months of 2008 was just unbearable for me. Everything that has happened.. I’m sure it was bad Karma for everything i’ve done in my life wrong, everything just got back to me. Now that ‘group’ of friends just left me, a week or so earlier everyone was arguing with each other and I was just at the center of the arguments I guess. They saw that I changed, but I never looked at myself, I never saw that I changed, I probably never realized, but to everyone, I have changed, a lot.

College

College started back in September 2007, and what a change in direction my life went! From day 1 I acted completely different for a change, and that’s proved to be quite cool as I am not afraid to show who I am in front of everyone at College, now I would never act like I am at college with my ‘old’ friends, or any other friends for that matter as it’s just to hard for me to be fully true to everyone.

After a grueling 2 months of 2008, College hasn’t been as enjoyable as it once was, but heck, that’s karma again eh? Now I really don’t know what to do with myself, I don’t know whether I want to move on to the next course after this or do something completely different..

So now you know what I’ve been up to my whole life, skimmed past most of the stuff but you get the gist of it. Of course this blog is not a ‘oh I’m so depressed, I’m just going to complain about everything in my entries’ type blog. Just subscribe via an RSS reader etc and you will also see the lighter side of me too.

March 2008 

In March 2008, I chose to become a Christian and I have changed how I think and live my life. I feel like a completely different person now.

Enjoy

Lee Jarratt x

Pictures

This picture of me (above) is the start of the year long phase of me taking photos of myself (lol). This is a photo that was took a year or two ago.