Hello Bloggers!

    This is going to be my first free-write for our "practice round" on our blogs. Hope you like it :)

• What would you do if you were in the middle of the lake and your boat began to leak?

 What happened to you? I used to be able to tell you anything, my thoughts about school, my feelings, who I like, stuff I could and couldn’t do. But now? I feel like you’ve changed. A change that happened so quick, so suddenly, I had no preparation for it what-so-ever. You’ve gone down a road you can’t even see. All of a sudden things you cared about and valued a year ago, seem to mean little to nothing to you now. I miss the old you. The one that would rather have a girl’s night out then talk to some random guy, the one who’d rather dance and have fun then mope around all day. I wish I could’ve seen what happened to you so I could fix it. Now I feel like I’m on a boat in the middle of the lake and it leaking. I don’t know whether I should just jump off the boat and leave the problem, or if I should face the problem head on and fix the leak. When a friend changes, something that sadly happens quiet often in middle school, what really are your choice to do? Ditch the friend because you don't feel like you should change her because you don't like the way she acts. Or you can face the "leak" head on and tell her she needs to change before she looses friends?  While most people feel this way toward their problems what can most people do? Risk facing the problem whether it is going up to a friend, family member, or just sticking up for yourself. People seem to rather just “jump off the boat and swim” then risk trying to “fix the leak” and going down with your boat.

*I decided to change my free-write from just answering the question by simply saying " If I was found in the middle of the lake and it was leaking... blah blah blah" I used the question to form a metaphor around a story. I figured that most girls, especially in middle and high school, seem to change the most, so I used my "what if" question as a metaphor. In situations like a close friend changing you really have to decide whether you will just "jump off and swim to shore" or if you'll face the problem head-on and "fix the leak". That was just my take on the free-write, hope you enjoyed!*