I have come to the conclusion that there is no reason to hold a grudge. Throughout my four years at North, I have made friends and lost friends. I have cried of laughter and just plain balled my eyes out.


I have said things that I didn’t mean and I have said things that needed to be said for a long time.
This year I have mended countless friendships because truth be told, I am leaving in a couple of months; I really don’t want to go away and wonder what would have happened if I would have just talked about problems that caused tension. I used to hate apologizing. If I felt like I didn’t do anything to cause a problem, apologizing never even crossed my mind. Now I really don’t care if I did or did not cause the tension. I don’t want to hold a grudge against someone; there is no point. Why should I waste my time getting upset because I am fighting with friends? Just say sorry.
I would much rather just apologize rather than walk down the hallways and pass someone who I used to talk to all the time and now act like I don’t even know them. Some might find it as being a push over, but if you know me, I am definitely not a pushover. When certain situations make me mad, I let people know. Now I just let them know when I’m sorry too.
Even if you are not at fault , be the bigger person and just forget about it. Move on. You never know when your last day to live will be. I learned this my Junior year when a student that I went to middle school with died. Seeing the hurt in my friends’ eyes made me realize that life is too short to just stay mad at people. Adam Litteken helped me become more of a forgiving person. Now that it is my senior year, I don’t want to regret anything.