This I Believe
Do you want to waste your life thinking about everything you do and say before actually doing and saying it? Everyone has done stupid things. Unfortunately, it’s a given trait that we all get when we’re born. But I say instead of fearing the next stupid decision you make, look forward to it. If it doesn’t work out for you, I also don’t think you should regret it.
Let me try to explain my point to you through a story. A couple of weeks ago, I went to a camp with a church group. Here at this camp, they had a beautiful lake, a football and soccer field, a volleyball court, a basketball court, and a ring that you play gaga ball in. But they also had a giant chapel. It had a lot of open space, as there were not too many people at …show more content…
I’ve got another story. In fifth grade, I was very different from how I am now. I went to Mize, and if you ask any kid from Mize how my fifth grade year went for me, they’d tell you I was one of the troublemakers. Anyways, my buddies Will and Ashton, both tall and athletic, wanted to mess around. So when one of our other buddies left the room, we ate all of his food. When he came back, he announced to the whole room that someone took his snacks. He was just kidding, he knew we did it, but our teacher didn’t. She told the class to get up and search the classroom for Logan’s fruit snacks. Eventually somebody found the empty wrappers in the trash can. Yet still, the teacher wouldn’t give up. Twenty minutes later, she brought different groups into the hall. The group that I was in had both Will and Ashton in it. I told everyone else in the group just to let me do all of the talking. After ten minutes of interrogating us, Will bailed out and confessed everything, including that Ashton and I were involved. We all got in trouble. But the funniest part was that Logan, the kid who we stole the fruit snacks from, got in trouble too, for absolutely no reason. Well, I learned that doing stupid things could be very funny, but don’t take it too far. I do not regret eating Logan's fruit snacks one single bit,
Do you want to waste your life thinking about everything you do and say before actually doing and saying it? Everyone has done stupid things. Unfortunately, it’s a given trait that we all get when we’re born. But I say instead of fearing the next stupid decision you make, look forward to it. If it doesn’t work out for you, I also don’t think you should regret it.
Let me try to explain my point to you through a story. A couple of weeks ago, I went to a camp with a church group. Here at this camp, they had a beautiful lake, a football and soccer field, a volleyball court, a basketball court, and a ring that you play gaga ball in. But they also had a giant chapel. It had a lot of open space, as there were not too many people at …show more content…
I’ve got another story. In fifth grade, I was very different from how I am now. I went to Mize, and if you ask any kid from Mize how my fifth grade year went for me, they’d tell you I was one of the troublemakers. Anyways, my buddies Will and Ashton, both tall and athletic, wanted to mess around. So when one of our other buddies left the room, we ate all of his food. When he came back, he announced to the whole room that someone took his snacks. He was just kidding, he knew we did it, but our teacher didn’t. She told the class to get up and search the classroom for Logan’s fruit snacks. Eventually somebody found the empty wrappers in the trash can. Yet still, the teacher wouldn’t give up. Twenty minutes later, she brought different groups into the hall. The group that I was in had both Will and Ashton in it. I told everyone else in the group just to let me do all of the talking. After ten minutes of interrogating us, Will bailed out and confessed everything, including that Ashton and I were involved. We all got in trouble. But the funniest part was that Logan, the kid who we stole the fruit snacks from, got in trouble too, for absolutely no reason. Well, I learned that doing stupid things could be very funny, but don’t take it too far. I do not regret eating Logan's fruit snacks one single bit,