Recall_Essay

Recall Essay From Then To Now Growing up is a series of personal changes. Usually the most noticeable are the physical changes, but there often seems to be changes that happen at a deeper level. These deep changes in character, morals, and spiritual being seem to not be in any correlation with the physical changes. But maturity in these areas is a true indication of growing up. One needs to make decisions on their own and learn from the consequences in order for deeper changes to occur. In elementary school, everyone was friends unconditionally. You talked to everyone as if no one person was better than another. Somehow, once you got to the junior high level, different groups had started to form and status labels began to dictate your set of friends. This usually puts a tremendous amount of pressure on being accepted. This pressure sometimes leads to the use of drugs, initiations into gangs, and dressing in a particular style. When entering my teens, my desire to be accepted out weighed any other desire. Many of my close friends from elementary school began to get involved in mischievous dealings. The summer right began, out, friends, school, changes, didn’t, am, one, little, high, college, because, year, wanted, time, things, person, parents, never, much, military, junior, involved, grades, fly, even, about, values, universities, try, told, today, sure, started, somehow