freewrite for 5 minutes/p based off of it

 FREEWRITE:
  I strongly agree with John Holt's statement, "We learn something by doing it. There is no other way." Based off of my own personal experiences. I had a friend in highschool whom was unhealthy for me. We did bad things together and were constantly getting in trouble. Everybody told me that she was  bad for me and that I should seperate myself from her. I never listened to any of them untill we moved in with eachother and things went down hill. I saw her true colors, the person everyone else saw her for while I was in denial. Also when I started working at dutchess, my fellow co-workers tried to teach me how to make change. They would tell me how they learned and I wouldnt understand. I would try thier way and would always end up giving people too much money back or too less. However, I found my own way of making change and it worked.

PARAGRAPH:
It's true, we don't learn something untill we do. There are many parents out there that try to protect thier child from danger. They could lecture and scream all they want but untill that child knows how it feels, they won't learn the true meaning behing thier parents words. Like I mentioned in my freewrite, my mother told me over and over that my friend wasn't a good influence on me. She explained how I changed from the person she use to "know". It angered me at first but I figured she just wasn't understand. It took a while before I saw what my parent and siblings were trying to tell me. My friend and I had to go through something so bad to realize that this person isn't who I thought they were; and I should have listened to the outsiders who could see what I couldn't see. Now that time has pasted, I clearly see what I couldn't before. I recognize all the bad decicsions I made and how I had changed dramatically. This factor in my life, truely opened my eyes. I couldn't believe how stuipid I became under a negative influence. I now take my time with whom I become friends with, and what a gesture of a "real" friend is. I will never make the same mistake again.