As I have matured into a young adult, I have observed that your actions effect your life. After watching a renowned film, Forest Gump, I have reminisced about the famous quote, " Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are gonna get". This quote brings me to one conclusion, in life, as one makes their choices, one never knows what will happen or what he or she will get out of it, which can be paralleled to picking chocolates.
While maturing into a young adult, I have personally made choices both good and bad. I have made many choices such as staying in school and working hard. By this I mean trying my hardest, staying involved both academically and extra-curricularly, and working one, sometimes two, part-time jobs. I do this mostly to keep myself out of the lieu of making bad decisions due to peer pressure. I have stayed actively involved in school all four of my years there; for example I have been the Class of 2004's Secretary since freshman year. Another huge decision that I made was not to get involved in drugs; I have seen first hand what drugs can do to a person. One of my older brothers who has a serious drug problem that has forever ruined his life and changed the way my family and I live which has played a large role in my continued decision to stay away from drugs. A perfect example of what making poor choices that I have tried to steer myself away from. This has made me see the troubled effects of a ruined life, which makes me happy that I set goals the first day I walked into LEHS and has kept me focused and striving for success.
In addition to the positive choices that I have made so far, I still need to make one of the biggest decisions of my life. I have to choose what I want to study in college after I graduate from LEHS. This is one of the hardest things that I have had to do because I am only 17 years old. I am not even sure who I am, never mind what I want to do for the rest of my life.
