August 12, 2009
I stole that pack of gum….
I regret that I impulsivly stole that pack of gum in front of my coworkers. I know it sounds trivial but one of them was a boy named tyler who I could have been close friends with. But now, because he was the one who saw me, he just thinks of me as a liar and a thief. I wrecked any chance of a relationship with him and also destroyed my relationship with my boss who is also a close friend. In all of my seventeen years I have never regretted anything so much. Now, I have to go to work everyday being seen as a liar and a thief even though I know that’s not really me. I’m just stupid. But it is a lesson I will carry with me forever, even trivial things like a fifty cent pack of gum can change the course of a life. I will never shoplift or do anything like that again.
Submitted by: Meredith
At 8:15 pm on September 27, 2009, A friend commented:
Why don’t you just tell that guy Tyler that it was a flash, a moment of rebellion or subversion? Why don’t you tell him and your boss that you regret it? It’s true it’s hard to earn back good opinion when it’s been lost (if it was lost here), but it’s not impossible and you’re so young. For you, Meredith, anything’s possible. You have a thousand mistakes to make before any one of them changes your life irrevocably.