I wasn’t sure if going to Good Counsel was the right choice for me, I didn’t know anyone except one girl, Ally. We both tried out for cheer together and we both made varsity. That year only three freshman made varsity and I knew when I made the team, after tough competition, it was meant to be. My freshman year was so much fun, I became best friends with Ally. We cheered at football games together every Friday night and had a sleepover every weekend. Her family is Catholic and I started attending church with them, Ally is one of the main reasons my faith is very strong today. We were two peas in a pod that no one could separate, our friendship was meant to be.
Sophomore year came around and there were more girls from our grade on the team. 9 sophomores in total. The team wasn’t that close and there were a few girls on the team who wanted to be best friends with Ally like I was. So they decided to try and ruin my friendship with her, and it worked. They started telling Ally rumors about me; how I would tell other people in the school that I was better than her and I didn’t want to be her friend anymore. By the end of the school year Ally and I had gone our separate ways. I had to accept the lack of control I had on the situation, I realized that our friendship being over as quickly as it started was meant to be. It was a life lesson …show more content…
Junior year is supposed to be a time to realize who your real friends are. I was in a small friend group, but I never hung out with more than two of them outside of school. The cheer team had always been like a family to me, and that year it was a mess, everyone had distanced themselves into little groups during practice. I had to go through a rough year on my own, but I knew through the lessons I learned that it was meant to
Sophomore year came around and there were more girls from our grade on the team. 9 sophomores in total. The team wasn’t that close and there were a few girls on the team who wanted to be best friends with Ally like I was. So they decided to try and ruin my friendship with her, and it worked. They started telling Ally rumors about me; how I would tell other people in the school that I was better than her and I didn’t want to be her friend anymore. By the end of the school year Ally and I had gone our separate ways. I had to accept the lack of control I had on the situation, I realized that our friendship being over as quickly as it started was meant to be. It was a life lesson …show more content…
Junior year is supposed to be a time to realize who your real friends are. I was in a small friend group, but I never hung out with more than two of them outside of school. The cheer team had always been like a family to me, and that year it was a mess, everyone had distanced themselves into little groups during practice. I had to go through a rough year on my own, but I knew through the lessons I learned that it was meant to