This blog is going to be about where I am in life right now. Feel free to leave advice in the comments.
Currently, my life has been hectic. I have been trying to balance school and my personal life while trying not to fall back into depression. I have fell off with my school work which is not good at all because this is important to me and it makes it look like I do not care. My health has always been in the way of everything since I was around the age of 11. Having Crohn's disease and Autoimmune hepatitis (Liver Disease) is hard to cope with. The biggest misconception that everyone has about me is that because I look fine out the outside that means I am fine in general. That is not true. I am a mess on the inside and it will never go away. I have a disability that people cannot see. It has no cure. I just wish people could understand that about me and other people who suffer from similar problems like me. I am trying to play catch up with a lot of my work, but having these problems makes my life 10x harder than it should be. I always come out strong in the end though. In this blog post I will be writing about a time that shows the reader a moment when a you or someone close to you made a decision that had a negative impact on your life. In class, we listened to a podcast called “What You Don’t Know” by Lulu Wang. Listening that the podcast will help with my writing process for this blog post.
It is a cold October night and I am excited to be intending the homecoming game at my school. This is the first time I get hang out with my friends from school. I did not usually go to school events because I hated my school, but today I was stepping out on my shell. My Mom was not the strict type of parent, so she did not care if I went out. As long as I got home on time. My friend Savannah from a different school and I was sitting by the door waiting for my friends to arrive. I decided to bring along my other friend because I talked about her a lot in school so they wanted to meet her also. We talked about how much fun we are going to have and how much we want the lions to win the football game. After 10 minutes of sitting by the door my rose gold IPhone 6 ring and I got a test saying that they are outside. I yelled to my mom “We are leaving. I’ll call if I need anything”. She yelled back “Ok. Have fun” in response. I had the window of the car rolled down so I could feel the crisp fall air hit my skin. My friends talked amongst themselves, but I did not pay much attention. A couple minutes later we pulled up to a packed parking lot looking for a parking spot. I pointed out more people from school that I knew and I had a feeling it would be a fun night. We finally found a space and we all got out of the car. We walked towards the football field to find seats. It was very packed since we were playing against Strath Haven High School. When we got the to bleachers we sat next to a group of kids I already knew. The game had just started and I was just taking everything in even though I had no clue how the game of football worked. One girl I was with named Kayla yelled of the noise of everyone else and said “They are serving free chick-fil-a sandwiches down there. We should go get some”. Everyone agreed and we walked over to get some. As we walked over a girl in the group named Stephanie pulled me aside. She said, “You ever smoked weed before?”. I was not shocked that she asked me that because a lot of the kids here smoked. I looked at her and replied “No” in a very stern voice. “You should try it. It helps with a lot of stuff. I remember you saying that you get anxiety being around large groups of people. I will help”. I thought about it and it did not seem like a bad idea. I mean it does not do much harm to people anyway. “OK, I’ll try it”. She smiled as I agreed to the idea. I normally do not fall in the trap of peer pressure but I did not think it would be bad. She came back with the weed and said we should smoke it in an area where no one would see us. It was a lot of staff around. We went on the other side of the school where no one was. It was darker down this end. It was Kayla, Savannah, Stephanie and me. I was the only one out of the group who never smoked before. She used a Backwoods in Black N’ Sweet Aromatic flavor to roll the weed in. I had a very uneasy feeling about being over here. I was way too quiet for my liking. Kayla pulled out her lighter and sparked the blunt. I was a very potent smell that smelled kind of good to me. As Kayla passed it to Stephanie a bright flash came to our attention. A slender man with our school security guard outfit on looked at us. “I knew I smelled something. Did anyone ever tell you that you can smell marijuana miles away”. At this point I knew we were in trouble. |
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