As I walk through the high school doors on my first day of senior year, I think to myself, “This is it, this is where it all ends.” Most would think of that statement as me reminiscing on my final year of high school, but I’m not. I’m thinking to myself, “This is where I’m supposed to ruin my life.” This is a cruel statement, but it’s true. It has been proven by the ones older than me, and it will be proven by the ones younger than me. As I approach my senior year, I will most likely be approaching some obvious senioritis. As my elders have shown, the senioritis gets taken too far and becomes The 17th Year Rebellion. The 17th Year Rebellion, is just as it states: a rebellion. It can occur anywhere between sixteen and eighteen years old, and
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Instead of going to sleepovers and football games and being a teenager, I sat in the basements of strangers’ houses and smoked weed with my sister and her friends. I ended up being well liked by them, because we had the same maturity level. It wasn’t that I enjoyed rebellion, that I kept doing it; it’s the fact that I got to spend time with my “best friend”. It took me a while to realize that she was only using me. Anytime we would argue she would threaten to out my bad habits to my parents. As a thirteen-year-old, being grounded is the worst thing ever. She had me tied to a puppet string, and I was …show more content…
I caused a lot of hurt and I finally realized what I’d been doing all this time wasn’t right. In ‘The Mirror’ the author, Loretta Stewart, relates to this as well. She talks about breaking the cycle that her predecessors have laid out- in hopes of bettering her life and not ending up like them. “It’s symbolic of my desire to break the cycle of failure in my family,”(Stewart 17) she states in her narrative. This spoke many truths to me, because I had compromised myself and I knew something had to change. It took me years to get off the track of failure and on the track I always desired. As I was earning my parents’ trust Caitlyn was attempting to earn mine. She caused me to compromise myself, because I thought she wanted the best for me. It didn’t turn out that way, and that’s something that’s difficult to
Instead of going to sleepovers and football games and being a teenager, I sat in the basements of strangers’ houses and smoked weed with my sister and her friends. I ended up being well liked by them, because we had the same maturity level. It wasn’t that I enjoyed rebellion, that I kept doing it; it’s the fact that I got to spend time with my “best friend”. It took me a while to realize that she was only using me. Anytime we would argue she would threaten to out my bad habits to my parents. As a thirteen-year-old, being grounded is the worst thing ever. She had me tied to a puppet string, and I was …show more content…
I caused a lot of hurt and I finally realized what I’d been doing all this time wasn’t right. In ‘The Mirror’ the author, Loretta Stewart, relates to this as well. She talks about breaking the cycle that her predecessors have laid out- in hopes of bettering her life and not ending up like them. “It’s symbolic of my desire to break the cycle of failure in my family,”(Stewart 17) she states in her narrative. This spoke many truths to me, because I had compromised myself and I knew something had to change. It took me years to get off the track of failure and on the track I always desired. As I was earning my parents’ trust Caitlyn was attempting to earn mine. She caused me to compromise myself, because I thought she wanted the best for me. It didn’t turn out that way, and that’s something that’s difficult to