Thursday, August 5, 2010
Georges Response
I was underage obviously at one point to smoke cigarettes and I did get arrested for it. I really didn't have regret toward the situation but more so my thinking. I had to go to court and pay a fee of a couple hundred dollars. The thing is I didn't have to drive to court or pay the costs for what I did, my parent had to. As for consequences I really didn't have any but I put that on other peoples shoulders, my parents knew I smoked, but me taking advantage of them knowing or whatever it was made me careless. Just the feeling of putting my parents through something that could have easily been avoided made me feel disappointed in myself. In True Notebooks it seems well it's obvious they are all faced with hard times, but you can tell they try and make the best of it. Making the best of it is a good way to overcome whatever it is your handed. Francisco for example talked about going outside to exercise, Mark asked what if you didn't want to? the response was absolutely understandable because he replied that being locked up all day you will go outside any chance you get. Going back to my experience, I was lucky to know my parents enough to just talk about the situation and know it would be forgiven and understood. That was just the overcoming of it all, as for change I wasn't so stupid anymore. I was underage and I was going to be walking down the street with a cigarette any time till I was eighteen.
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I definitly know about putting my responsobilites on someone else's shoulders. Particularly my parents! I had actually ran out of gas. And it was'nt the warmest outside. I had to call my mother and father to come and pick me up and get me a gas can.Of course theres more... since the car i had at the time was a series made after 1999 my gas tank took like like 4 gallons before the car would start again! so it was back and forth to the gas station for my car on someone elses expense. So it was a tough situation but the thing im learning is the more i take responsibilty for myself the more no one else has to...until im 90 years old. lol
ReplyDeleteI think most of us take advantage of other people to avoid taking responsibility for our actions. Its unfortunate that the burden most of the time falls on our parents shoulders. I once bought a $500 purse on my dads credit card, not even caring about how much that really was. You wouldn't think that all those consequences would happen just for smoking a cigarette, but they do. Eventually we are going to get ourselves into a situation thats going to impact us so much, we won't have any other choice but to learn from it. We have to understand its not okay to just assume our parents are going to clean up the messes we make everytime. Figuring this out is part of growing up.
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