Major Life Lessons Analysis

A major life lesson that I have learned is how to be careful of the things I say. I am sure that in one way or another, many people have heard a story about watching their words. For me, this was expressed through a dollar bill. When I was in fifth grade, our class had a counselor from a nearby middle school come over and share a few words with us. I will confess, at the time I wore the brand of a “gifted child” and as such, I was almost always bored in the classroom. So, while my classmates and I watched the speaker slowly crumple a dollar bill, my mind began to wander off. The counselor began speaking, but the only part of the speech I tuned into would be this: “When you say something hurtful to someone, even if you don’t mean it, it’s like crumpling up this dollar bill here. So later in my life say I want to buy a soda from a vending machine. This bill,” here she held it up and showed off its wrinkles, “might be too wrinkled to go …show more content…
The words went straight into my heart and sunk in like a blade, sharp and unyielding. Then my Nana closed the Bible, and stared at me. “Child, you’ve been a damn fool.” She was a small woman, with brown and wrinkled skin and red nail polish that was always a shade too bright for her skin tone. Despite the fact that I was taller than her, when she drew herself up here I felt very, very small inside. “You’ve got no sense in you, and it falls to me to make you learn it because if I do not, I fear you’ll walk around with you tongue so far ahead of your mind you’ll trip on it.” She roughly grabbed my arm and shook me a little, not enough to hurt but I started crying. “One day, you were gonna have to get through that thick head of yours that words mean something, something mighty powerful. The Lord did not give you the gift of speech to be a brash, thoughtless,