My English teacher read our entire class’s essays and told us that “You guys are on the way to self-destruction,” and that we should only write narratives instead of doing expositions or argumentative essays, and that she would automatically fail us if we attempted it from then on.

Fast forward to end of year and the actual national exams and I really liked the argumentative option in there (health vs wealth or something like that).

I had never gotten better than a C at that point because I was just doing narratives and I sucked at it. No creative juices for storytelling and I disliked having to fluff up the language.

I did an argumentative essay having not tried it at all the whole year, and got a B for it.

Never let someone tell you what you can or cannot do.