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... the wrong crowd brought me a lot of problems. How can you fight a wining battle if you let peer pressure get to you? Sometimes not everyone is your friend. When your friends want to see you fall and not do good they might actually cause you to make the wrong decisions. My freshman year in high school I started letting older friends influence me to doing things I should not have been doing, like not attending class, not doing my class work and smoking weed. I felt I was moving to fast for my age. I started to regret a lot of decisions I made. I wanted to get my act together. It was time to face the repercussion. I had a plan I wanted to graduate early. I wanted to make my family and my dad proud of me. So I took class at the local community class to achieve my GED. I had to change myself and my life for the better. I can accept failure, I can’t accept not trying. I always looked up to my older cousins since we were younger. During my cousin’s senior year, we talked a lot about colleges & programs we could attend together. I told myself there was nothing holding me back but myself. There are endless possibilities out there & doors with opportunities. So that whole year I struggled. I didn’t have reliable transportation. Some days I had to miss class because of not have ways to school. The only person I had in my corner was my dad he never gave up on me. That meant so much to me I couldn’t fail or my life felt like it would come to a halt. Later that year I was eligible to take my GED. Confident of what all I’ve been through a...