"We don't pay the price for success, we pay the price for failure."� This quote is a great example of the way I felt many times throughout my junior year of high school. Learning from mistakes is how people get through life. Sometimes people learn the difficult way, not realizing that these hardships could be avoided. Not only did I make mistakes in school, and at home, but with my friends as well. I have learned so much because of the mistakes I've made, but it was worth it. I'm a better person now because of the mistakes I've made.
The mistake that is going to affect me in the next few months, is the mistake I made with school. I had a boyfriend that I had been seeing for about six months. Since we fought so much, I found myself on the phone all night and all day. I began to fall asleep in class quite frequently and my grades began to get worse.
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Another thing affected by my mistakes were my friends. Jo Strawser and I had been best friends since we were toddlers. We were inseparable until Adam came into my life and ruined the best thing in my life. Jo was not only my best friend, but someone I admired as well. She kept me from doing harmful things and she always lent a sympathetic hear and a shoulder to cry on when I needed it. I was always with Adam or talking to Adam and therefore was never with her. Soon she gave up on our friendship and began to make other friends. After I realized what I had given up, it was too late, the damage was done. We had both changed to the point that we no longer knew each other and we had grown so far apart. I was no longer a part of her life, she no longer needed me because she had support from someone else. Things between Jo and I will never be the same, but someday I hope that we can
The 3 Mistakes of My Life
Adam Poniński
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