If I Could Change the World

If I could change the world I'd get rid of Mc. Donald's, books, and the color red. I know this sounds like a weird list, but I have my reasons. This list means nothing to me I don't like any of these things and that's why I'd get rid of this stuff. I hate looking at these things It makes me mad.

First, I'd get rid of Mc. Donald's because their food I'd discussing. I have so many memories with my mom and sisters at a lot of Mc. Donald's. My mom would always take me and my sisters there to eat and so they could get a kids meal. I hate driving past them because then my thoughts automatically go back to my mom and my sisters. If I could I'd burn them all down because they make me have sad memories and I don't want the stress.

I would also get rid of books-for two reasons. One, I hate reading. I don't like taking up my time to read a book that I don't even like in the end. The second reason is cause every time I try to find a good book I NEVER Can!! I think that books are all stupid because they take a long time to read and I am a slow reader so therefore I don't like books at all. 

Finally I would get rid of the color red. I'm not part of a gang I just don't like the color. It reminds me of death. I don't like it because the last time it was my favorite color my sister died. I'm not saying that was the reason she died but it brings me horrible memories So I don't like red. The definition of red to me is, evil! I don't like it because when I see the color it Almost brings me to tears. My sister was little and we were close. Every time I see red I can only look at it for a few seconds before bursting into tears. The last picture we took was her wearing a red and black dress. 

So to make my world a lot better, I'd get rid of Mc. Donald's, books, and the color red. They all apply to me as past stuff and I feel they should stay there because then I wouldn't have to stress and hurt more than I already do.

My Favorite Mistake

I know I'm not perfect but I guess nobody is. My favorite mistake wasn't the stealing part it was the part where I learned from my mistake. I was 14 and I always thought I was cool and did everything that my friends did. One day that all changed.

As usual I was a teen who wanted to be cool like everybody else. It was a summer day I was hanging out with one of my friends. Me and my best friend Selena were hanging out walking down the street and we wanted to go get a drink or something from the store down the street so we started walking towards the light. She asked me "have you ever stolen anything from the store?" I told her "no, I've never even done anything like that, my mom would kill me!" She asked me "well do you wanna do it?" I said "sure, but you can't make it obvious" she told me that shes done it a lot of times before and hasn't ever been caught.

I believed her and went along with it trying to be cool.  As we entered the store we went over to the soda machine and filled up a 42 oz. of Dr. Pepper. I turned and walked to the candy section and grabbed a snickers and some skittles. I watched as Selena walked to the other isle. She grabbed something but I couldn't quite make out what it was. She can back over to me and she opened my back pack and she stuck a box with 3 condoms inside my bag and zipped it up. As we walked to the cashier to pay for our soda she said "girls can I check your bag? You girls seemed sneaky about something over there." 

I said "well our parents are expecting us home soon so we just need to pay for our soda." She told us to follow her to the back office. We had no choice. We went to the back with her. She showed us the video cameras of us putting stuff in the bag and she called the cops. The cop came and said "well ladies what do we have here? I need you to pull everything out of your bag." I did as he said. He called our parents and told them to come get us and that we were being charged $300 dollar fine for shoplifting. My mom came to pick me up and she said to me "Raquel, you can't hang out with Selena anymore shes a bad influence on you and you now have to pay $300 dollars to the state for your consequence. Why would you do this?!" I just shook my head and said "I don't know."

From that day on I NEVER stole or planned on stealing again. I'd learned my lesson. Till this day I've not seen or talked to Selena because of that day. I lost a best friend and I can't take her back and don't plan on it. I feel that even though she was a good friend to me she wasn't a positive role model towards me I learned how to better my friends and pick the better influenced ones instead of the ones who got into trouble all the time.