Free Write, My Lesson Learned

​Free Write: 1/20/17

​Well today is January 20th, and its Friday. I'm supposed to go to a makeup party later with my mom but i hate her right now. I don't understand why she tries to be my best friend after grounding me or yelling at me or fighting with me. What happened to Ricky was so terrible. Who beats a kid with a crowbar in front of his mom? That schools a piece of crap anyway so it's not surprising that those are the kinds of kids that come outta there. I'll never understand how someone can physically harm someone else intentionally. Its honestly crazy to me. 

My Lesson Learned: 11/14/16

This weekend was definitely one for the books. But along with all the fun and new experiences i had, I also learned a lesson that i should of always took to heart instead of just acting like whatever towards it.  Friday night, i learned to always be loving and kind to everyone you meet, know, have known, still know, used to know, just met, etc. because you never know what someone might be, or is going through. That's something your parents tell you as a kid and you're just too young to understand why. When i left the house that night i never thought it would've ended up the way that it did. Super long story short, I ended up at a friends house in Canaryville instead of Armour park in Bridgeport helping a girl that i used to walk by in the halls at Marist all the time just thinking, "how could she be so perfect?", "wow, shes so pretty." My friends and I did all we could to help her given the circumstances. And even though i was helping her the best that I could, i had never felt so helpless in my life. The things she told me and showed me in Pizza Novas bathroom i wish she never did. Someone who i thought was so perfect was really as far from perfect as you can get. I didn't even know this girl and i was never really a fan of hers to begin with. But, i knew i had to put all that aside because that didn't matter in that moment. What mattered was helping someone who just needed someone to be kind and caring to her for once. That next morning, i woke up and immediately grabbed my phone to check up on her. And although its not my business to tell without actually going into detail, because i helped her she woke up in the hospital with a severe case of dehydration and a mild case of alcohol poisoning instead of dying that night from a drug overdose.