Family Comes First

Chapter Three: Write a narrative from your school experience that encapsulates an important lessons you and perhaps other were able to learn. How did/has this experience shape(d) you?

Family Comes First: Being in school, generally in high school. I have learned many valuable life lessons. As an adult now, when I drive by a school bus stop, I always see a bunch of kids standing around as if they were the coolest thing since sliced bread. I was once one of them. Once you graduate from high school, none of that “you’re cool,” “he’s not so cool” really matters any more. The cliques that once roamed the halls are blended in with one another. You tend to make new ones as you travel through life. “Being cool” does not really matter anymore. About 85% of your “friends” were probably not your friend to begin with. By now that should not even matter, because you have learned to realize that you will grow out of your friends’ kind of the way you grow out of your favorite pair of jeans. I do have friends, but my life revolves around my family. I will instill this lesson in my children. Friends come and go but family sticks together. (Word Count: 175)