Personal Narrative: I Believe In Everything Happens For A Reason

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I believe in everything happens for a reason, if something bad happen or doesn’t go your way it’s because God has a better plan for it. I believe everything happen for a reason because it does, once when I was a sophomore in high school something really bad happen and it changed my life. One day around June right before school ended, it was my “Friend” birthday so he wanted to hang out but my mom didn’t like me hanging out with anyone she didn’t know so I lied to her and said I was hanging out with someone else but really I was hanging out with him and his friends for his birthday. Anyways him and his friends picked me up around like noon or maybe later but once he picked me up, we were heading to his friend’s house to hang out there for …show more content…
Well something bad happening to me and it made me realize that I don’t want to be the person I am right now and that I know everyone doesn’t like who I’m turning into also, from that day I started doing better. The first thing I did was pray that God would forgive me, I prayed for so long and cried. One of the first thing that I fit while I was trying to change my life for the better is stop being friends with the people I was friends with, they really changed me so badly and talked me into doing so many different things that I knew I shouldn’t have done, but I just didn’t care because I wanted to fit in with them since I didn’t really fit in with anyone else. Once I change my attitude and how I treated people I started making more friends and better friends. I started actually caring about school and tried harder in school. I was doing so badly in school, I almost didn’t pass any of my class I passed with low grades like a low C high D. My GPA went from a 2.3 to a 2.9 within a half semester since I started changing the way I did my school work and actually …show more content…
I treated my mom like she was nothing, we had the worst relationship ever. She didn’t trust me or let me do anything because she wouldn’t trust what I would actually do. When I started changing my life for the better, our relationship became stronger and stronger which was amazing. She end up becoming my best friend, and the person I told everything too. When I started going to church our relationship got even closer, Things between us couldn’t have gotten any better till the day I got saved at church, it’s like as soon as that happen we went from being close to being one person. I got super lucky that she forgave me and started trusting me again. I don’t know what I would do if I didn’t have this close relationship with my mom right now. I wouldn’t replace her for the

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