Personal Reflection
Writing Entry 

      When you are born, you are gold. In the middle of your life you will fall and in the end of it all you loose and experience all the bad things. When I was a little girl I was innocent. I knew nothing about death, sin and grief. I lived in a world without troubles. When I was born I never knew how hard the real world was going to be or what laid ahead of me. As I grew up, I begun to experience the bad things like loosing loved ones at a young age. I had never imaged life would be this hard. I thought it would remain easy and nothing hard would come upon my shoulders.

      When I was suspended in grade 10 for getting into a fight with another girl in my grade it was the first time that I really found out the kind of things that made me angry. I lost my temper on numerous occasions and did not know how how to control it. I threw a chair across the class room hitting her right in the eye. Immediately, she started crying and I thought to myself, did I really just do that? Why did I get so angry? The reason I got so angry and lost my temper was because a girl that I never knew was speaking negatively about my race. Just like in the outsiders novel, Ponyboy realizes that bad choices are what make bad things happen in life, which was what happened to me. I thought high school was going to be the best time of my life but, later became one of the hardest times in my life.

      I have been a better person because of the bad actions and choices I made in my previous life. I have realized that all the good things in life do not really last for a long time, they come and go just like the seasons do. The actions I made in high school were the actions that were in the middle of my life. In the middle of life we all fall and go through bad things and this was what happened to me.