Second Chances
Some of us believe that everything happens for a reason. And then some of us believe that life will never get better. I have thought about just giving up on life when things are bad, but as I have learned over the years that bad situations come with good. You just have to wait. It may take a while for life to get great, but you have to trust it. Here’s why. September 2011, I’m so excited yet so nervous for my first day of High School today. Every type of emotion is running through me, but what helps a little was that I was entering High school with a bunch of good friends, or so I thought. 8th grade was a great year. Our class was small, only 50 kids in the whole grade. We were all so close, boys and girls. It’s like we were all one big family. Inside I wasn’t thinking about graduation and how this little family would change, I just enjoyed it while I could which was maybe why I was so blind sited that Fall of 2011. Summer was great, my mom and I took a two month trip to California for me to take acting classes and meet new people. It was awesome and there were some struggles like money and time, but all in all I remembered it as the best time of my life. Summer ended and before I …show more content…
But I didn’t leave until I got my chance to stand up for myself. And I did. As I was walking out the door and would be the last time I would encounter Sophie (hopefully) I said one last thing that would change both of our thoughts for good. I confidently blurted, “Not everyone is going to be afraid of you, Sophie”. She didn’t know what to say and so she walked out the door and I haven’t seen her since. I was very proud of myself and felt like I owed it to that scared 15 year old freshman. And unlike that horrible school year that changed my life for the bad, I used my opportunity to change it for the good. I didn’t walk out of that daycare a mouse, I walked out a
Some of us believe that everything happens for a reason. And then some of us believe that life will never get better. I have thought about just giving up on life when things are bad, but as I have learned over the years that bad situations come with good. You just have to wait. It may take a while for life to get great, but you have to trust it. Here’s why. September 2011, I’m so excited yet so nervous for my first day of High School today. Every type of emotion is running through me, but what helps a little was that I was entering High school with a bunch of good friends, or so I thought. 8th grade was a great year. Our class was small, only 50 kids in the whole grade. We were all so close, boys and girls. It’s like we were all one big family. Inside I wasn’t thinking about graduation and how this little family would change, I just enjoyed it while I could which was maybe why I was so blind sited that Fall of 2011. Summer was great, my mom and I took a two month trip to California for me to take acting classes and meet new people. It was awesome and there were some struggles like money and time, but all in all I remembered it as the best time of my life. Summer ended and before I …show more content…
But I didn’t leave until I got my chance to stand up for myself. And I did. As I was walking out the door and would be the last time I would encounter Sophie (hopefully) I said one last thing that would change both of our thoughts for good. I confidently blurted, “Not everyone is going to be afraid of you, Sophie”. She didn’t know what to say and so she walked out the door and I haven’t seen her since. I was very proud of myself and felt like I owed it to that scared 15 year old freshman. And unlike that horrible school year that changed my life for the bad, I used my opportunity to change it for the good. I didn’t walk out of that daycare a mouse, I walked out a