Mistakes are Proof that you are Trying

When it comes to making mistakes I know that word well, being 17, almost 18 years of age, I know mistakes like the back of my hand. Between school assignments to relationships with people, it’s not something I can say I’ve missed out on. Now it is not like I try to make mistakes, but that doesn’t mean that it can stop them from happening.In the long run it doesn’t mean much other then there is a lot of learning and personal growth that needs to be made, like a quote I see contently “Mistakes a proof that you are trying”, it used to just make me mad reading that ,but really in mentioning all of these experience that I’ve had that involve mistakes, lets take a closer look into a experience that I had not to long ago, just a few years ago during a falling out I had during my junior year of high school.

So my junior year of high school, started off on a decent foot, I was going in with only a handful of friends who I was close with at the time, but was still expecting to have a decent experience . Then also during this time I ended up getting into a relationship with my boyfriend. which in the long run shouldn’t have been a problem, but it ended up taking a big toll on a few of my friendship. One of which I had been friends with since freshmen year, we had shared an advisory together and confided in each other, her being new to the school district and me being a socially awkward and anxious person, we seemed like a perfect fit. Up until jr year. After I had gotten into my relationship I started splitting my time between my friends and my boyfriend, which for my friends was not okay. They started ignoring me and avoiding me all together, soon after I had confronted them, we got into an argument and ended up going our separate ways, after two of them had left my side.

From all of this happening I could feel the guilt and pain from all the arguing and negative environment, but really I couldn’t see the mistakes I had made until after a few weeks after all the things that happen was over, and all the things I could have done to prevent the out falling, rushed into my head. In saying all of this, and realizing that I could have fixed things rather then make things worse, and it wasn’t until then that I grew from the experience and learned that I could have stopped and thought about ways to word things before starting a conversation, I could have stayed calm instead of blowing up after getting yelled at, which just made things worse. there were so many different alternatives and routs I could have gone down to save not only my relationship but my friendships too.

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