Family Is Forever .

It was the middle of my sophomore year and things really started to take a turn for the worst. Everyone who I thought was my friend all of a sudden started to turn their backs on me when things started to get complicated & I could’ve sworn that was when your friends were supposed to be there the most, but clearly I was wrong. This had to be the first time that I realized that through anything that possibly comes my way my family will always be there no matter what happens. At the time I really didn’t realize what I was doing was wrong, I didn’t think I had a bad reputation but I honestly did. It’s not that I was doing things to get it that way it was just the way I acted and the way people took it. I guess I really didn’t want to realize it, people were constantly talking about me and in the beginning it really didn’t bother me but after a while it started to really get to me & I remember I would go home every night and cry, because people would seriously make it a bigger deal than it actually was. When all of this started happening and I was known to have a bad reputation all the people I thought were my friends and the ones that I thought would be there for me and be helping me along no matter what happened were starting to turn their backs on me. I felt so invisible, I felt like I had nobody. But once my family found out what was going on they sat down and had a talk with me, I always thought that my family was just there for whatever but at this time during this situation I realized my family was there for me through thick and thin and they would help me along and they were here to stay. I never really knew the meaning of family is forever until my whole world started to crash and burn around me and in the end my family was the only people standing right by my side. I remember this like it was yesterday, I was at dance class and I had found out that my “best friend” was trying to get rid of me but do it in what she thought was a nice way, she would tell everyone but me that she didn’t want to be friends anymore. I was so furious at first but then all of a sudden all of that anger turned straight into tears and I didn’t even know what was going on. Everything was such a blur at that moment, so she pulled me aside and said "I'll come over after dance and me you and your mom will have a talk" so I said fine and just went about my dance class, but I was absolutely miserable the whole time because I felt so left out and I felt so invisible and I felt like nobody cared. So come the end of our dance class me her & my mom went back to my house and we all sat in my room. At first it was awkward and the tension was something I just couldn't handle, so I finally broke down and said "You're supposed to be my best friend but you're talking about me to other people and trying not to be my friend anymore" so she started getting into everything and telling me things I already knew, well what I thought I knew at least. It was basically a reality check for me, and my mom was telling me the same things that my best friend was. That conversation really affected me and made me think, maybe it was time to change my ways or the way I was doing things; because clearly the way I was already doing things just weren't working. So from that day forward I made a change in myself and the way I seen myself. This all goes to show you that your family will ALWAYS be there no matter what life throws right in your face without any type of warning. So as the year went on my family was standing right by my side helping me change and go through it all, because it wasn't easy at all. There was a lot of pain and struggles that came along with it, up to this day I still deal with a lot of the shit talking but no matter what you do that's never going to change, it's just something you learn to deal with. But I always know when anything happens my family is sitting right there waiting to help me, and each and every time I get through it because of them. It was one of the biggest events in my life, and it made me realize for the first time that my family would always be there for me no matter what.