I Believe in Second Chances
When I was a freshman in high school. It was a new world, it was scary, exciting and I loved it. I was an average kid, I wasn’t depressed but I was happy go lucky, I was just average. I had taken all honors classes and I did spend time with friends but I mostly spent time on my school work to make sure I had all A’s.
I had struggled all year with chronic bronchitis but being born an asthmatic this wasn’t that strange for me. But three weeks before spring I caught it again, but it didn’t get better. After a week of getting worse and worse my doctor diagnosed me with pneumonia but it was mild enough that I could stay home. A few days later I had go to the hospital because none of the medicines were helping. The doctors at the hospital told my parents that with the pneumonia I also had staff inside of my lungs. He also told them that it was a new strain that they had to experiment on to find a cure and if an antibiotic was not found in 3-4 days they did not expect me to make it. I was in that hospital for three days before an antibiotic was made for me, by the end of those three days I could feel the life draining from me and I had come to terms with the fact that it was my time. But somehow it wasn’t, somehow those doctors were able to save my life. There have been long term effects of this experience that I have had to deal with, but this experience has made me who I am today.
Before this happened I was quiet and not very social, but I was given a second chance. When you go through a life threating experience such as that it changes you, sometimes for the better sometimes for the worse. I like to think I came out better. I am happier and I find more value in the things I do and I always try my best to do my absolute best.
I feel like everyone should go through an experience where they come out feeling that they have been given a second chance. I hope they no one has to find that feeling through the means that I did but I do believe that finding that second chance helped me find myself. I am the person I am today because of it. I have realized that it is just as important to have a social connection with people as it is to be studious.
I believe in second chances, and to me what that means is we all deserve a chance to view the world in a new light. There are so many ways to do this, some are positive and some are not but hopefully when it is done and over with your view of this world will be better and brighter. This change can happen in anything we do, it can be a teacher taking you aside and letting you retake a test you failed, it could be a life threating experience like I had; it could be finding yourself in religion, or finding new friends. This list is endless; you can find hope and the strength to find that second chance for yourself in anything you do.
This I believe.
