Blog Post 1C

 It was a rainy Sunday afternoon, mid-summer in the year 2004; I was awaken by a knock on my front. I was home with two of my older sisters which at the time were still sleeping. At the age of eight I was always told not to answer the door alone but I did not want to wake up my sisters so I went about answering the door on my own. Thankfully, it was just some of my neighborhood friends asking if I wanted to come out to play. I automatically thought no because it was raining, but they said that we would be playing in the rain and that it would be fun. Without a second thought I left my house and followed them to their house. I didn't tell my sisters nor did I call to ask my mom for permission. I knew that that was a bad idea but I would of felt lame if I said no to my friends. At that age I found it very important to impress my friends even if that meant not listening to my mom. Halfway to their house I started coughing, I realized that this wasn't such a great idea. At that moment I had an epiphany, I didn't have to follow my friends and make bad decisions because they told me to; my mother raised me better than that. I told my friends that I was going back home because my mom wouldn't be happy with me playing in the rain. They taunted me and called me all sorts of names just because I decided to go back home but this was an educational moment for me because I then realized that real friends wouldn't let you make bad decisions. Since that moment my insight on what real friends are has changed and I surrounded myself with better people and surprisingly my life took a change for the better. I started doing better in school because my new friends would help me do homework instead of telling me to forget homework and come out to play. Such an odd way to experience an educational scene.