Curve Balls

At the beginning of the school year, I was all set; I had a plan for membean and all other schoolwork. I was going to stay up to date on my schoolwork, and get ahead on my membean. That is until life threw a completely unexpected curve ball at me. I was in my first serious car accident. Me and two of my friends were driving back home late at night; the roads were wet and the friend driving was unfamiliar with the road. We warned her of a sharp turn coming up, she started to slow down, but her brakes locked and there was nothing we could do but prepare for impact; we ended up hitting and splitting a telephone pole. After I opened my eyes, all I could think about was if I was hurt. I know how adrenaline works so I was terrified that there was something wrong with me; I avoided touching any part of me. Once we were all out the car reality hit–hard. I saw the damage of the car and questioned how I walked out with just scratches and bruises. About 10 minutes later, cops and ambulances came and helped us and made sure we were all okay. While I wasn’t driving, it still affected me and changed a lot of things. It threw all of my plans out of the window for school and I lost all of my motivation to do anything.

After the accident, I didn’t want to go to work or school anymore. I had no absences until that day, and following that day I stopped going to school and doing my work. This wasn’t good, but at the time I didn’t care. I had a really hard time getting my motivation back and it was ultimately going to be my downfall. I was failing English and knew I needed to do something about it. I took full responsibility for my actions and decided I needed to go to vacation school. This was a hard decision for me because while I didn’t want to give up my vacation, I knew it was the best option for me so I could get the help and space I needed to get caught up and pass English. I got a good amount of work done and I have now gotten caught up with my Membean.

While life will throw things at you that you don’t expect, you have to try and work through it and do what needs to be done. I have learned from my mistakes, and I am now paying for the consequences. I know that once I am caught back up, to stay caught up and ask for help when needed. It is important to understand where you made mistakes and to take responsibility for them. For me, I let my accident affect my entire life and stop me from doing what was important. But, I have learned from my mistakes and I am now taking responsibility for those actions and doing what is needed to pass English before the end of the semester.

“Well, well, well, if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions…” by duncan cumming is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.