Personal Narrative: Shakyaih Brittain

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In the past, I have done many things I regret. I have gotten suspended on numeral occasions which set me back. I have said things to people that hurt them, and I have did things that I shouldn't have done at all. My name is Shakyaih Brittain and this is my story of regrets.

My first regret occurred when I was in ninth grade. It was the first week of school and I got into a bad altercation with another peer. This particular day, I was in a bad mood and I ended up fighting the student just because she looked at me a certain way and said something out of the way. I should've just let the situation go, but at the moment I wasn't thinking about it. I regret the incident because it caused me to be behind everyone else and it took me a while to catch up. At that moment I realized I shouldn't let people get to me, even if I am having a bad day.
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I regret that because the last thing I said to him was I hope you die, and now he's gone. I learned that you should never hold grudges against people because you may never know when their last days will be, or when yours will be. Since then I have learned to keep certain comments to myself and not to say everything that comes to my head. My attitude as always gotten the best of me, but not anymore because I have learned to control it in any situation. I just had to realize that every action doesn't need a

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