Lesson
One time when I was a little girl my mom told me, “Mija try to get in where you fit in.” My mom would tell me that because I would always want to hang out with the “cool kids”, not people who the cool kids didn’t like. I always thought that those cool kids were popular. I would tell my mom that mostly every time that I came from school and she would always say the same thing to me. Every time she said that I didn’t understand what she meant by it, but I think one day I finally understood. I was 12 years old and I went to a public school. There were all kinds of gangs and groups at my school. Everybody would be separated into there own little groups. There were the math geeks, the cool kids, the weirdo’s and so many others. My school was kind of big and a lot of kids went there. This one time at school there was some cool kids I wanted to hang out with and be friends with. Everyone liked them because they always wore cute things and were really pretty. That’s why I wanted to be in there group. They always got a lot of attention and that’s what I also wanted. I really didn’t know what kind of people they were, but I didn’t care I wanted to be cool, too. They said I couldn’t be there friends because I was to lame. That day I went home crying and told myself, “What have I done to deserve this?” But I didn’t give up I knew I was going to become friends with them and I didn’t care what risks I had to take, I would do anything to become cool. The next day I decided to go up to them and I said, “I would do anything to get into your group!” They looked strangely at me and then whispered in my ear what I had to do. They asked me to put gum on the teacher’s seat. I really didn’t want to do it but I did it anyway because I didn’t want to look scared in front of them. Kind of knowing them they would have laughed at me and talked bad about me. I did it because I really wanted to be in their group with them. The teacher came in the classroom and sat on the gum and when he noticed he was sitting on it he absolutely went crazy. Nobody saw me do it so I didn’t get in trouble. After I felt bad about it but not really cause I got to hang out with the cool kids. Then when it was time to go to lunch they told me that I could hang out with them. The next few days they had me do more pranks to the teachers and even the principal. I started getting caught doing the pranks. Then I just realized that they were just using me to get me into trouble. That’s when I started to get what my mom meant when she said, “Get in where you fit in.” The next day I told my mom what was going on at school. She said to stop hanging with them because they were just using me to get into lots of trouble and because they were bad influences. The next day I told them I couldn’t hang out with them anymore. They got mad at me but I still told them what I had to say. The told me “whatever” and walked away. They bothered me for the rest of the year but I stayed strong. That was a big lesson I had to learn. I never tried to hang with people that were using me, never again. I really started to understand my mom more ever since that day.  She is a really understanding person. Thanks to her I know what kind of people I should be friends with.