Narrative Essay

An Important Lesson in Life

          My mother always says "faces we see, hearts we do not know"; she told me daily that we never end up knowing people. Every day I meet different people and I do not know if they can do good things or bad for me;  when I was younger I just wanted to do different things with different people, although I was risking to lose everything in my life and my mother always tried to protect all to me. I learned that my mom always was right and that people are not always what we know at first, I learned the difference between good and bad by I learning it in an ugly way. But ¿should we have bad experience to learn a great lesson in life?

          My brother and I were very close, we were best friends; we could do anything together and we trust between us, we had an amazing friendship; however I started to have new experiences and meet new friends, I also started to play volleyball and my brother started playing in the school band; always having in mind the confidence between us and we always striving to keep it. Following that I already was a teenager I already had other interests but never thought that doing other activities without my brother could have changed my life so much.

          Once, my brother started a relationship with a girl and I felt jealous of her because I thought she would take off my brother from me on my side. However, he improved in his grades thanks to her. On the other hand, I started to date with a very attractive and friendly guy, but for my brother that was a problem and because of that my brother drifted apart; I did not mind my brother at that time, I started to change my clothes and behave differently; added to that I began to humiliate my friends because they thought and dressed differently than me. I was not the same person I used to be.

           When I was with my boyfriend I felt good, pretty, and in loved, as a result, I was putting aside all those close to me including my brother; with whom I could talk about everything. For that simple reason my parents noticed the distance between us, the problems with them began. As a result I also had problems with the rest of the family. Some of them scold me, others advised me and I neither listened, I just wanted to enjoy my life without thinking whether they were right or not; I wanted to have fun with my boyfriend and feel cool by haveing good times with him.

          With my boyfriend we had many discussions because he was usually drunk and even drug.Sometimes of those occasions he wanted me to do it too but I never did it. I began to be afraid to spend time with him, I did not want to see or know about him; I was very scared and I did not know what to do. I tried to tell my parents but I could not because I did not want him to hurt me. I just remembered my mother telling me: “faces we see hearts we do not know", I though about my brother and my friends and all the damage I had caused them by the guy who I thought he was good for me.

          The worst day by his side was when we went on a hiking with all our friends, we were having fun in the pool and he began drinking heavily. I was with a friend talking, while he was eating and drinking with his other friends, when suddenly he approached me and my friend and began to claim me by jealous, he beat my friend and started yelling at him to stop, my boyfriend it was annoying to the other side, I called my parents they pick me up but I did not tell them what had happened.

          One morning I took courage to tell my parents and my brother what had happened that day, they helped me to get away from him and it was quite difficult because he did not leave me alone until finally he stopped to look at me. I had to apologize to my friends, my brother and my family for all the troubles that I had caused them. I stayed away from all the people who also had contact with him, I was afraid of him getting to me again. I spent along time with fear in trusting someone as a result of everything I had happened. I never forget that feeling of fear of being in front of someone who at any time could really hurt me.

          Ultimately, I learned that sometimes we really need a bad experience to better understand things and when we passed through adolescence do not think things through, I believed the queen of the world still only a child, I learned that you should listen and sit to think my actions before of them. I am now an adult, and I am more cautious in all, I do not want to make mistakes that way. I will never forget these words "faces we see hearts do not know" because with those words I learned to better select those to my friends, the person who I decided to share my life and to have better confidence with my parents.