blog #2

Words are all around us, we use them every day. Some words have the ability to make a moment that much better or that much worse. Words can hurt and words can heal. In my life, words have affected me numerous times. I have been hurt by them and I have been motivated. A time I was impacted by words was not too long ago, during the last few weeks of my high school days. I will admit I sailed through high school, I never studied, never took anything seriously and got into trouble a lot. I will never forget that morning I got called into the principal’s office, the words that she spoke to me changed my entire outlook on life. I was told that I was not going to graduate. I failed my economics class and didn’t have a high enough average. In that moment the words that were just spoken hit me like a truck. I could not believe that after all the times I managed to skate by without any consequences and now it was finally coming back to haunt me. So in that moment I made a decision. I went to my teacher and told him that I needed to do anything I could to graduate. The words “you will not be walking with your class” kept taunting me, they would not leave my mind. Eventually I got what I had to do taken care of it wasn’t easy but I managed. It felt so good to prove everybody that doubted me wrong. I am so lucky that I got to walk across the football field that night with my class.  But if my principle wouldn’t have told me that I was not going to I might not have. Words have an incredible way of getting to you. Words get inside your head and they bother you and they drive you crazy until you do something about it. So I did. I proved them wrong, I proved myself wrong. I let words bully me for a brief moment in that office. I remembered something that my grandfather had always told me, he said “no matter how hard it gets or how badly you want to give up, remember that you are stronger than that and you can do whatever it is that somebody else says you can’t.”  Words will hurt you, they will heal you and they will always be a part of life. You just have to learn from them and don’t let anybody’s words determine what you’re doing.

 

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