I wish what I now know is what I knew 6 months ago. (lights camera Action) When my freshman year of high school almost ended and summer was creeping closer and closer, I started to get too big for my bridges. My parents have always trusted me because I have never given them a reason not too. So when summer break had begun to start, and the possibilities to hang out with friends became endless, I had so many things I wanted to do. I was afraid my parents wouldn't let me do the things I had dreamt of doing all school year. I got into this habit of lying. Once I started to tell little white lies, I couldn't stop. Lie after lie would build up, and I had to make my story of why I was late coming home. It had worked for a long time throughout the …show more content…
I was so upset with my past mistakes that I blamed them for punishing me. I refused to talk to them and I made it very clear that I was upset with them. Refusing to speak to them, I would pout and do nothing to control the outcome of my situation. Thinking they would feel sorry for me and just give me back the trust I had lost and my phone. I continued to walk around like a zombie just waiting until everything would be okay. After a month or so later, nothing had changed. Everything was still the same and I was still being punished. Not knowing why I was still being punished, I became even more upset. I had made a mistake and wanted to be forgiven. After days of thinking it wasn't fair for me, I had a change of heart. I realized I was being very selfish. With only being caught up on my side of the story and not even thinking about where my parents were coming from, I decided to look at it from their side. I decided I needed to pick it up and show them that I am better than my past mistakes and making it up to them was my first …show more content…
I wasn't so hung up on my phone. I started to see the bigger picture of how my life should be. I shouldn't have to care about how many likes my Instagram pictures get, or how many friends I have on Snapchat determining how cool I am. I was opening my eyes and becoming less stressed about all my friends doing things without me. Without having my phone to make me worry about things that are not important, I started to do more things for myself and become a happier person. I started to see I didn’t need my phone to have fun or I don't constantly need to be on it. Not only are there so many people to talk to in person or hang out with, but also there are so many things to do that does not involve a phone in your hand. For the longest time I was so upset with my parents and didn't fathom the full reason for being punished for so long. I was so selfish and so self-centered, that it took me the longest time to actually see that I’m a better person and a person who has more fun without a constantly being on a phone. Even though at the time I was so upset and wanted to just move on from the mistakes I had made, getting caught lying was honestly probably the best thing that could've happened to me. It opened my eyes to a world without the social media and everything that I thought was important. Today, I do have my phone back,
Certain sorrowful events transpire into a significant change in lifestyle. To illustrate, a Reality Check article named “Is Facebook ‘Fake-Book’?” clearly demonstrates a moral about social media users. “Facebook has taken the mystery out of life. It lets you snoop into people’s lives through personal profiles and photos,” Oli says. He was one along with millions of Facebook users that were obsessed. “It bothers me that once you’re not on Facebook anymore, your photos are still there for anyone to see,” Kristen expresses. The causes and effects of Facebook resulted in one thing called addiction. With that being said, there were countless impacts from the severity of the addiction. For example, less work was being completed, proper social skills were not getting developed and it was not safe. There was only one option left for both Oli and Kristen to choose and that was to permanently delete Facebook forever. After doing so, it created a physical awareness of how much Facebook was taking over their lives. They then spread the message of becoming a Facebook addict so that the same mistake would not be repeated. The majority of teenagers get involved with a variety of matters that are dealt with and designed to construct a lesson. The specific message will then be converted and looked upon as a positive aftereffect. Therefore, it can then
Overcome with the good, I unintentionally let my guard down. I was always on go, following a set routine. Every morning, six thirty, I’d get up for school at eight. Then, I’d take the subway to work where I was an intern. Once I finished, either I’d go home to start homework or go to my second job where I worked in retail. At night, I always squeezed in a late night dance class. On a good day, I would get home at eight o’ clock, but on a full day I’d get home one thirty in the morning. I had a tight schedule, not the mention, the school projects and intern work that I had to
My Grandmother always advised me to be a responsible boy or else I would be a boy who cried wolf. She reiterated that one day, no one would bother to listen to my cries. I loved scheming on how to avoid going to school most of the time. I loved feigning sickness. I learned the hard way. During my junior high school, I developed a bad habit of avoiding school, something common among my age group or peer. I loved staying home to watch and listen to favorite talk shows. Since these shows were only aired during school hours, I often feign sickness so that I could stay home and watch what I considered, a must watch program. At first, on most occasions, I successfully convinced my
Due to the circumstances that I had to live my life with I was disowned by my family all because my parents were ashamed of the person I was becoming, not heeding’s to their teachings of not letting the environment I was in getting the better of me but I should use the place I was as a reference to be better in life, I didn’t blame them at all because I could only imagine back then how block
Obviously there is no excuse for cheating but I had somewhat good reasoning. My average in social studies was a 94 and in every other class my averages were a 96 or above. My father had warned me I would be in a lot of trouble if my average was not bumped up by the end of the quarter. He noticed I spent no time studying for my test the day before, and instead on my phone all night. Seeing this, only made him much angrier and he told me if I did not get a 95 or above on this test I would be grounded and my phone would be taken away for a long time. Of course, I argued with him and then made the punishment that much more effective. So, I began to study around 11:00 on my bed (which was not a smart idea). Around 30 minutes later I fell asleep and woke up to my alarm, realizing I had barely studied for my test. In my mind, my only option was to cheat off of my friends test so I didn’t fail. During lunch, I asked her if she would be okay with me glancing at her paper a bit and if she could angle it towards me during the test. Of course she said no problem and when I got my grade back I actually ended up getting a 98. Although cheating was obviously wrong, it allowed me to stay out of trouble with my parents and to receive a great grade with putting very little effort into receiving
I became even more selfish and shallow than I'd been previously and hid all of my choices from my parents. The only thing my dad knew about was my grades, and he asked me why I had thrown away the relationship that he thought was a solid, tight bond. When I finally told him about one of the biggest decisions in my life after lying to him about it for a very long time, he told me he was done with me. And my world collapsed, I was nothing if I couldn’t rely on my father’s love for me. My parents brought me home and asked me to decide to change, and do better, or to stay on my path and to be not welcome in their house anymore. When I was first given this choice I was upset and angry, how dare they ask me for that, it has nothing to do with anything that’s going on, but I decided that losing my family would be the worst choice I could ever make, and I didn’t want to end up like all the bad examples of people I know who made the wrong decision. I realized that I had hurt my dad deeply, I had not only lied to him but I had broken a promise, and he blamed himself for the path I was going down. We talked and argued, I shouldered all the blame, told him I didn’t want this that I wanted to be better, and he still blamed himself. He
The story begins with me in the first grade. I was attending school at Hollis Hand Elementary. I had a friend named Jackie in kindergarten, but she was not in the same class as me in first grade. I came to the conclusion that I had to make a new friend. After a while, I made a new friend, and her name was Rachel. She became my best friend, and we would always play on the playground together and have sleepovers. At that age, you do not really think about a friend lying or deceiving you. I trusted Rachel, and I never really thought twice about what she told me.
Since then I haven’t spoken much to my parents but that’s fine. I know it sounds heartless but I don’t really care because I’m so used to being in this situation. I know it’s wrong that I raised my voice when I spoke to my parents especially considering I did that to cover up my lie but I don’t see a point in apologising. I can’t change what happened last night but it will be forgotten soon and I’ll go back to talking to my parents normally, as will they with me. I know it.
People lie everyday to, in someway or another, keep themselves out of trouble. Many teenagers will lie to their parents about what they are doing for the evening, how much of their homework they have done, or how that glass vase got broken while they were out of town. We even lie to our significant others about who that other boy was that called the house or what exactly we did with our friends last night. All anyone is trying to accomplish by this is to stay out of trouble when we know we’ve done wrong. But we never think of the effects of lying. Although we think we’re being sly, parents are usually smarter than we give them credit for! And eventually our boyfriends and girlfriends will find out! Then the problem becomes the issue of trust. If you lie, there is no trust. That can be one of the serious consequences of lying.
The invention of the cell phone has changed me and my life I'm many ways. Some positive and others not. It has made a lot of things more convenient for me, changed the way I interact with people, and changed the way I connect to the
Like the rest of the world, I cannot go a day without my phone. Try leaving your phone at home for a day and let me know how you feel. With the growing technology my phone is like my arms and legs. It is my must- have- can’t live without phone. It is my connection to the outside world. It is my connection to other people’s lives and theirs to connect with mine. The “cell phone” started out as a form of communication via calling and then it exploded with text messaging. Now it seems that most people would prefer texting then calling someone.
As technology advances, people become more and more attached to their phones and detached from real life. Now that people can text, call, tweet, and post from anywhere they are, that’s all some people seem to do. Many psychologists worry eventually addictions to our cell phones will have lasting effects on the way we communicate with each other face-to-face. Some worry we will become a society that never even talks face-to-face. There’s no doubt that we have become a society dependent on our cell phones and it’s killing our social skills, but this problem can be stopped before it goes too far.
When I left my room, my mother knew that I had gone through a rough time, and I did not want to talk to her about it. Even though there was only a month left in my school year, I promised myself that I would be completely truthful to my friends, my family, my heritage, and myself. I expected all my friends to leave me, but I was fully prepared for this. However, none of this ever happened. My friends didn’t leave me, I wasn’t alone at the lunch table, I wasn’t even seem differently by those around me. I had failed my family by doing this, and I wished I had stopped acting like someone I wasn’t sooner. This is one of the only mistakes I have made which I consider a failure because it had taken me close to a year to fix, and this is why I consider it my most successful failure.
My experience with this technology has been very interesting. Growing up I didn 't use technology alot since I spent more of my time outside or reading. I didn’t not really have a smart phone until my senior year of high school, so it didn’t play that big of a factor in my life. When I did get a Smartphone it wasn’t a big deal to me I treated it the same way that I treated my other phone. To me it was nothing special and I felt there was better things to do. I wasn 't a big fan of social application unless they were games or tumblr. When I got the I phone 6 that when I really started to be invested in my phone. Now a day’s My phone is my life everything I need is on my phone , from when my school work is due to all the contact I need. To me it really does make a difference in my life because it seem know that I am always connected to my phone which is a nasty habit.
I still question why it was so difficult for my parents to trust me. As I look back on it, I wonder if it may have been to protect me, the long years that my parents had to deal with my brother, or even the years my parents spent raising foster kids and watching them repeatedly make bad choices causing theirs and my parents lives to be much more difficult. The kids that my parents have kept over a few years have had very troubling and difficult lives. The kinds of kids they kept ranged from homeless children that were taken from their parents to kids that had been sexually abused by their own parents. With some of the most unfortunate things that have happened to a few