Blog 11: Responding to a significant topic in The Truman Show

     When I was High School I used to hang out with the wrong crowd but I was around friends with whom I grew up with. As we grew up we tried, experienced and did new things which consist of smoking, underage drinking and cutting school to hang out. They were not productive things, not positive learning experiences or things I would do today. In turn, I was disobeying the rules of society and my parents.  
     I was in a cave with people I confided in but at the same time I became fixated in the negative activities we participated in and did as a group. My friends had an negative influence on me and my vision was not clear, my mind was up in smoke, and I perceived things differently because of my eagerness to participate. To reiterate some of the things I did like smoke marijuana, drink alcohol and cut school lead me to believe that the things I was doing were cool because of the friends. I did not any better and any other way to have fun.
     For example, some kids would go to the museum on the weekend and I used to think that is so not cool. Another example would be, School Clubs, such as the music group or the chess team, me envisioning myself in these clubs was not part of my plan. Of course, I knew people that were involved in these clubs but I did hang out with them in the school, the lunchroom or even after school. I always thought to myself the feeling that maybe joining a club would be something i would want to do but it was not considered the "IT" thing to do especially with the "IN" crowd watching. I was peer pressured into thinking some things such as what i mentioned were not productive. In reality, the light that I was accustomed too was the same light that put me to sleep at night and the problem was that I could not change that bulb, meteorically speaking of course.  At the time, i did not think of the consequences my actions would create, nor did i gain anything from it because i was not thinking of it in that way.
     In conclusion, life is full of choices that we have to make. I made mines and I was fortunate enough to walk away from it all and recover positively. Now, I have a great job, i am back in school and I'm happy. They always say you live and you learn and that is exactly what I did.

Until Next Time....