" (One of...) My Stupidest Mistake "

(Second Essay in English 2 class)

                    Life is an everyday struggle of doing the right things. In my adolescence, I am in a real tight with Life's obstacles. I have made a lot of crazy things in the past. I am not even sure if it was a good or a bad thing. Since I was young, I was favored by my teachers (yep, it's in a PLURAL form) in my previous school. They thought of me as a responsible, hardworking, and obedient to the rules type of a student. Well, I agree with everything else except for the "Obedient to the rules" part. I don't exactly follow the rules but I do go around them as to not get in trouble with the SAO later on. It was not much of problem before. What I did was just some petty things but one. It was just me being utterly stupid and foolishly reckless.

                    In my last year in high school, my batch went to have a campus tour around the different prestigious universities here in Cebu. My section was separated from the others. We were riding a coaster together with our adviser meanwhile the others were riding the tourist buses. It was during on the ride home where everything happened. I was situated in the back side of the coaster together with most of the boys in my class. They are one of my closest friends. One of them pulled out a Nestle bottle with liquor in it. They were saying that we should have fun and be merry. That it was our last school campus trip and such. I was just sitting silently on my place for I was having a fever at that time while my adviser was situated in the far front of the coaster. They started taking a few sips and a whole lot of laughs was made. Everything was done in a hush way. One of the guys handed the drink to me. The others were against it saying that it was a bad idea. I didn't know what came into me that I took and drank it. It wasn't my first time though. We continued drinking until the bottle was nearly empty. Of course, our adviser noticed it due to the odor of the liquor. The incident was directly reported to the SAO when we reached back to school. My knees were shaking and my brain got haywire that I didn't know what was I supposed to do. My friends cared so much about me that they actually covered for me. They said that it was a return of my many favors to them. Because I was so scared at that time, I didn't know what to do and just did nothing. My mind went blank from all the things that was going on. I wasn't caught but my friends were. I felt so guilty that i was about to surrender myself but my friends stopped me. They said that it's not worth it. Rather than doing nothing and be completely consumed by my guilty, I just confessed everything to my mom. She wasn't mad. She was somehow even more delighted than mad or upset. She said that it's a good thing to do something reckless sometimes so that I would learn something valuable from it later on. That had shut me up. Yes, I have a very confusing mother but her words made me felt better. The school was such in a ruckus for around 2 weeks because of that incident. I tried my best to help out and had convinced my teachers not to expel my friends. Thank goodness, it worked (being close with the SAO Directress is so GREAT!).

                    I felt utterly horrible for doing something stupid. I learned my lessons. My friends and I went to separate ways but our friendship is still intact. (We don't drink in coasters anymore. We go to bars now xD). I am forever grateful for what they did. Friendship comes a long way it if is genuine.

*My second essay in my English 2 class*