Examples Of If I Were In My Shoes Essay

If you were in my shoes, you would be a person full of ambition, charisma, and self- confidence. If you were in my shoes you would have been born exactly 2 months early of your predicted due date. You would come out of the womb at 12:00pm on Monday, June 16, 1997, in Charlotte, North Carolina at Carolina Medical Center. Premature, weighing 3 lbs and 11 ounces, you would spend the first week of your life in an incubator. However, once strong enough, you were able to leave and see the place that you would call home. Living on the West Side of Charlotte, otherwise known as the hood, you would live in a two bedroom apartment with your mom, dad, and brother. Yes, space was tight, but being there was the best time of your life. Eventually, the good times ended on your fifth birthday, when you moved into your new house. Unfortunately, while moving, your dad and brother were not apart of your luggage.

From joking around in class, trying to poison your second grade teacher, and knocking everything off your fifth grade teachers desk every morning, your behavior in class would make your teachers form negative opinions about you and would speak negatively about you. Most teachers concluding that you would never amount to anything. However, you never saw the wrong in what you were doing; you just saw all the fun you were having. On the other hand, your mom did not seem to take it that way, she would always tell you, “acting this way is just gonna lead you straight to jail”. And one day it did; your mom got fed up with your bad behavior, and everyday after school she would take you to the old jail downtown. You would have to sit in a jail cell all alone for hours. If you were in my shoes, the harsh words of your elementary school teachers and sitting in a jail cell would be the catalyst to your hunger for