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Examples Of Life Lessons Essay

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Life Lessons
Life always gives us lessons. Life lessons can either be good or bad but we all have learned from past experiences. I can say I learned so many lessons throughout my life but, one important lesson that I had to learn the hard way was to "Never expect anything from anyone to avoid getting disappointed". It took me a while to actually accept this lesson but once I accepted the lesson and applied it has helped me mentally.
We always want to believe other people will change because we think it's the best for them and maybe even ourselves. I remember always believing that my sister would change and stop doing drugs and even though she would stop for few days, she would go back to it. One day I just told myself I should stop believing …show more content…

She had a son and we thought that would make her change since what she went through with my nephew dad didn't make her strong we expected she would actually change for him to have a better life. Despite the fact that she had her son she didn't change. She went to jail two times and that didn't make her change, once again she got in trouble and this time was really bad, this when we really thought she was going to change and not go back to the wrong people and that bad environment. They attempted to kill her, but they failed and end up cutting her right side of the face, she was with us for few days then the weekend came and there she went again. I had lost all my hopes but still believe she would change one day. As the days went by she got arrested again, this time we decided to leave her there for the whole months she was arrested when she got out she told me about this nice guy she met and they were planning to move in together and I can actually say that was the second best thing she did that year beside giving her parenting rights to my mother to avoid getting my nephew taking away. They move to Florida I was so relief, we were so happy we said this is it she will stop doing drugs. She did stop doing pills and cocaine but since the guy she met worked out of town they had to work in NC when they came to NC she got on pills again. That was the biggest disappointment, when the doctors told my sister she was one pill away from

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