What Mistakes Teach Us

This story is mainly based about young teenager finding themselves trapped in an inescapable room of tough times and making crucial decisions. I'm briefly explaining the mistakes teenagers tend to make and how they over come them. Although some cases are not all the same, there have been many occasions where young girls and boys have given up on life due to unbearably and pier pressure. So hears some made up life stories, hoping youll can relate to them as the chapters display mild emotions and drama.
Hoping you connect to the story as much as you can :)
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Chapter 1
THE BEFORE STAGE
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It all began as my mom and dad decided to bring a young baby girl into the world. I was brought into this world few days after new year, so there were still crackers bursting in the air. It felt like people were celebrating my birth. They decided to name me Allison as i was destined to be named that. I entered into a family of 7 including my parents, my two elder sisters who were born way before me, my grandmom and my uncle. I opened my eyes to see my two elder siblings standing in excitement as they catch me for the first time in their arms. They gently introduced themselves with sugar in their voices and slight smiles on their lips. Both spoke in unison as they said, " We are you bigger sisters, Sam and Kim. Knowing well that i couldn't hear them and that i had no clue what was going on at that very moment. They still continued talking to me as if i was the best listener in the world.

Soon, as time flew, i was already in kindergarten and playing around in a small skirt with my best friend at that time. Family dinner, summer vacation, crucial homework of ABC, was all my life was about at age 3. Nonetheless, i was a happy kid that spread joy where ever she went.
Few years later into the primary, i felt all big in my bob cut and checked printed school uniforn as i walked into school thinking to myself, "im one of the big girls now." My mom looked at me as if i was going off to war as she wouldn't leave my hand and kept chanting the words "take care, take care". It was 5 years till i would go to the secondary school so i had to make peace here as this was gonna be like my home for a long time.
But as always 5 years didnt last long as i seen myself entering high school for the first time. Looking up at the bigger girls as they pulled my cheeks and screeched "so cute, so adorable". Although i liked the attention and blushed my way to class, i almost felt like a brand new person. School life become so easy for me as i was brought myself up to be the popular one. I found myself to be an attention seeker as everywhere i looked people seemed to me talking about me. Now in my head that was good but who knew that 4 years later my entire standard would end up hating me for being popular at age 10. Fast forwarding time, 4 years later i was still the most talked about person. I was in 9th grade at that time and studies were the last thing in my mind and i was busy struggling to make everyone love me. My mom was the only one i would run to when any girls harsh comment hurt my feelings but my mom did one thing and only thing only, she used to pull me infront of the mirror and say, " look at yourself girl, you're so pretty, they're just jealous. You should take that positively." She said that statement so often it rang in my head everytime someone b**ched about me. Little did my mom know that i am kind of a b*tch, well popularity made me that way. I was a self-centered, attention seeking b*tch and it took me 4 years to realise it and fix it. I lost more friends than i ever made due to this. I became the most hated girl in school and colony. Young girls envied me and big girls prayed for my death, only my close friends knew me in and out and loved me still. The first crucial mistake i ever made in my life was let others influence me and judge my character. I was young and careless and that's what made me almost flunk my 9th grade. I didn't know my priorities and maybe that was my first major mistake but thats what this story is all about, MISTAKES.
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My teacher was furious as she knew i was a bright student but somehow i didn't seem to be doing very well academically. In my head i knew very well why all this came to happen, i was more worried about what people thought about me that it played on my mind so often that it effected my studies, resulting in this situation. I wasn't angry at myself for being b*tchy but i was angry for letting people get into my head and making me feel that i was. I was internally a very loving child as i cared a lot for the ones i loved. I wasnt humble, oh hell i wasnt! I had pride dripping off me like sweat on a sunny day but that was who i am, loving but filled with ego. Somehow i let people define me as a person, their definition was 'ruthless' 'dramatic' 'self-obessed' i could go on..... But truly only i knew who i was but sadly it took me too long to realise it and i let people influence me for around 2 years, the whole of 9th and 10th grade i believed what people told about me. I was stupid to think that they knew me more than i knew myself and cause of that stupidity i had to face few more years of ragging and self-judgement. This mistake was irreversible and that's the bad thing about making a mistake but where there is bad there is always good. The good thing about mistakes is you learn from them, maybe not the first or second but slowly and surely you learn and grow from those mistakes. The mistake i made here was letting people define me as a person and i learnt that i need to please no one but myself. If im happy doing something i like, im going to continue doing it no matter whoever tends to differ.

This is probably how everything began. How my teenage life took a turn. My first mistake to my last.

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This was the journey leading to my teenage hood and how my life changes as i make my first mistake and how i overcome that mistake. Im currently 16 and i have made more mistakes in a year than there is stars in the sky and i tend to share most of them with youll and give you'll a beautiful message at the ending of every silly mistake you come across in my life. I promise. ;)

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I sincerely dedicate all my stories to the young struggling boys and girls who have probably faced a tough teenage life like mine or probably even worse. So a shout out to you strong people and i can proudly say that with a grin on my face that things will get better. I know, i"ve seen it happen. Im living proof of lessons learnt by mistakes.

P/N: Amber is my character name and a few parts of this is make belief as it is not a based on a true story but based on random term of events that do happen in an average teenagers life.

This was my first book and first chapter so excuse my grammer and writing skills. I promise to improve on the second chapter as the really story begins there. I hope you like the introduction to my teen-hood and more importantly i hope you like what comes next.
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