My Favorite Mistake

My favorite mistake is probably a common one. The mistake was smoking weed for the first time. Making that choice has caused a lot of things to happen in my life, most of them not good things. It's affected me, my family, and other people in my life.

I was hanging out with one of my good friends, just hanging out and playing video games. We hung out a lot, almost every day. This day was different. I made a decision that was going to affect me for years, and it is still affecting me to this day. It has never stopped causing me trouble. 

That day, I decided to smoke weed. At the time I had mixed emotions about it. Part of me knew that it was a bad idea and I should've made the choice to leave or just tell him I didn't want to do it. The other part of me thought it couldn't hurt anything and it wasn't a bad idea. Guess which part of me one? Right. I made the choice to do it. 

My friend's brother would smoke weed all the time, so we knew he would have some. We played video games while we were waiting for him to leave. We waited about ten minutes after he left just to make sure he wasn't going to come back. 

As soon as we knew he wasn't coming back, we went upstairs to his room. We started going through his drawers, closet, and just about every place we figured he would hide it. Sure enough, we found it, along with a pipe. We loaded the bowl and started smoking. We had no idea what we were doing. Somebody probably would have laughed if they saw. We eventually got the hang of it.

When we were done, we went downstairs to get food. (Just like everybody else that smokes weed.) After I did it, I felt kind of bad but I got over it. I just didn't think about the bad things, I just made the best of it. 

I started doing it quite a bit after that. My friend and I were always stealing it from his brother or finding other ways to get it. Eventually, I found myself doing it almost every day. I was never thinking about the bad things, just looking for the high. I wish I would've thought about it and stopped before I got myself into trouble. 

Although I regret that choice, I'm glad I did it at the same time. My life might have been better if I didn't do it but I wouldn't be as smart. I've learned a lot from everything that I've been through. I wouldn't be the person I am today if I didn't make that decision. I had my fun but now I know that that's not what I want to do with my life. It's time to grow up and move on with life.