If I Could Take One Thing Back

If I could take one thing back in my life it would be how I treated my parents. I treated them like crap. I feel very bad for some of the things I told them. I was doing drugs most of the time. If I wasn’t on drugs, I was on a hang over, or coming down off of something. My mom told me that when I moved out I sent her some emails. She kept those emails and told me that she would never delete them. I read those when I was clean and I felt sick to my stomach. I do not even remember sending them. I see tears in her eyes when she reads over those again.

I have made my dad so mad at me. My dad just cares about me a little too much. He is always trying to look after me. I barley get to see him too. He lives in Bountiful and we live in Spanish Fork. Whenever he came down to spend time with the family, I would tell him to screw off. Then I would go hang out with all my friends. I told all my friends that he was not my real dad.

Now I tell my mom and dad I love them every chance I get. I love them to death and I never want to hurt them again. I am going to live in their basement until I am thirty. I am going to do this to make up for the lost years. I respect them now. I live a totally different life now. I have a better life.

Jen

Have you ever covered for a friend? What qualities make a good friend?

Well, I think if you have been friends with someone for long enough, you have probably covered for them at one point. I think I have mostly covered for my friends by telling their parents they were with me when they weren’t, or I would let them leave my house and come sleep when they were done hanging out. For the friends I have had for multiple years, I have no idea how many times I have covered for them or done them extra favors.

Qualities that make a good friend are honestly, trust, and the biggest is loyalty, for me. I don’t believe you can have any sort of relationship without honesty and trust. You have to have trust in someone to get close to them. Loyalty is huge to me because I am a very loyal person to those I care about, so I think I deserve the same in return.

I have been through a lot of friends and it seems like I have kept the same ones that I have been with for years. They have the qualities you could ever want in a good friend. I know if I was ever in trouble my friends would be there in a heartbeat to help me out, no matter what the situation is.

Alexa

1.what is one thing you have learned from an older person?

One thing I’ve learned from an older person would have to be something my dad told me a couple of years ago when he figured out I was stealing and got caught shoplifting. “what you do know that affects others (good/bad) will find its way back around and bite you in the butt.”

2. do you know anyone that has died of a drug over-dose? Describe them. How has it affected you?

I’ve known many people that have died due to a drug over-dose.
The person that has affected me most would have to be my uncle Russell.
He wasn’t just some druggie that didn’t care about anything else but his habit, he was selfless and compassionate. When my mom was pregnant with my little brother and sister she didn’t have any where to stay. I was about five and I remember him taking us in and taking really good care of us even-though he was living at his Moms house. She wasn’t happy about it but she still let us stay. If it wasn’t for him we would have ended up staying in a shelter with a bunch of bums or something so I am really grateful for him.

Eli

Music

Music has been in life since day one, it’s the only thing to pull me up when I was down. Even when I was young my dad, use to play music really loud to wake us up. So I’ve always liked music. It don’t matter what I listen to just as long as it has a meaning behind it. Me myself I like to rap and write poetry. It helps keep me calm and chill with myself. If it wasn’t for music I would probably still be stuck on weed or something else. One of my favorite rappers is 2pac because of his poetic energy that he brings to the stage.

I think that every body should love music any kind it’s good for the mind and you can get loc to it.

Luis

Embarrassing

When I was about twelve years old, I had a friend named Billy Boren. He was not only my friend but my all time crush. I had, had a crush on him since the 5th grade. Well, one night we were trying to think of something fun to do and could not come up with anything. He suggested bowling- lame, movies- boring. Then he got the bright idea of cops and robbers. Cops and robbers is this game were you have about twenty to thirty people, and some of the people are “cops” and the rest are “robbers.” The cops are in cars and the robbers are on foot. The object of the game is for the robbers to get from one side of town to the other without getting caught by the “cops.”

Well when we eventually got the whole thing organized and everybody there I got kind of nervous and had a bad feeling in my stomach. I was planning on staying by Billy’s side but I have never played this game before but they didn’t know that on account of I wanted to be cool and said, “ I’ve taken every route in this game, I am pro.” The game started as Billy took off to the left. It was pretty easy at first then I saw where we were headed: a row of backyards! I thought this scene only happened in movies. Where the bad guys jumped over a series of fences. However in two, three, one… first fence over with, second, third, fourth, ditch!!! Yes! I said Ditch after the fourth fence I jumped straight into a ditch full of water! Of course Billy and Chris, this other guy who decided to run with us, knew that it was there and jumped over it. I smoothly got up and out of the water and started to run. They were laughing really hard but I couldn’t figure out why. I felt unusually light in the fact that I had just gotten out of a ditch full of water.

In the next two seconds I realized something that was too late to fix. Because I was caught in the fact that the cops got me and my pants were about 150 yards behind me probably floating in the ditch downstream. Great!!!! I am without pants under headlights in front of the crush of my life. Best night of my life.

Shawnie

The very first concert I ever went to was Godsmack. It was so much fun! I got these um . . . clothes, yeah clothes and it was 20 dollars! Wow! You see the problem with that was that it was just a little piece of cloth. It is very cute though I still have it. Anyways I got punched in the jaw when we were in the mosh pit. The problem was that I was not even in the mosh pit. They just attacked me it was kind of sad actually. I was to little to see the stage very good so I sat on my boyfriends’ shoulders. This was just like 3 years ago. I thought it was so much fun but there was a lot of hot sweaty people and it was sick because some of them had their shirts off and were all hairy with sweat. They are all moshing on you and it is gross! I have only been to a couple of concerts but I really like them. By the time it has gone on for a few I get really tiered though. I mean standing and jumping and throwing yourself everywhere gets very tiring.

Kesha

What is one thing that I have learned from an older person? I have learned a lot from older people, like my brother for instance, I learned how to smoke, drink, ride BMX bikes, and pick up girls. I also learned how to do math, English, and science from teachers, I learned how to play the guitar and play the baritone from teachers too.

How do I deal with gossip? When I here gossip about one of my friends I try to stop it from spreading, but if I here gossip about someone I don’t even know then I just try to stay put of it.

Do I know anybody who has died of an overdose? No I don’t know of anybody who has died of a drug overdose, but I do know someone who died in my life. My friend threatened to kill himself and I didn’t believe him but I went to his house just in case, I got to his house and went to his room and he was bleeding really bad ‘cause he had cut his wrists (our motto was “when you cut you don’t go across the road you go down it”) we called an ambulance but they didn’t get there fast enough. Yeah, it’s kind of a touchy subject to me. I was really depressed and wouldn’t talk to any one for like a month.

Tom