Charles DuBois said, “The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we become.” Change is scary. So, when given the opportunity, most of us choose to stay who we are rather than take the chance to be something better. Fortunately, I did not have a chance to oppose change in my life, or I never would have taken such a leap.
There are certain things one does not wish to hear when they come home from school. “How much do you like living here?” is definitely on the list. It sits close to the top, right under “Dad’s in the hospital,” and just above “Fluffy got hit by a car.” I can’t say that life in
Vermont was perfect, but it was comfortable. My grades were slightly less than average, but I wasn’t worried about college. In the back of my mind, I wasn’t even planning on going. Three more years of school was enough. And, living in the same town all my life, I had the luxury of never having to exert myself socially. All of my friends had been the same since kindergarten, and they were good. I liked them a lot. Sometimes my social life lacked in variety, but I was happy. More importantly, I was comfortable.
The thought of a move made me sick. They had to be kidding. “
Georgia? No one moves to
Georgia.” But apparently they did. And apparently we were. “What about apple picking in the fall?” It sounded stupid, but it was my only defense. There was nothing really tying me to
Vermont--nothing beyond my incredible fear of change. “There will be peaches in the spring.” And that was the end of it. Peaches in the spring. I had never tried a peach, but I knew from the look of them there was no way I could ever enjoy one.
The first weeks of school were awful. It was so much bigger than my last school. I was timid and scared, but I also saw this new beginning as a chance to start over. No one
knew me here. It was my chance to be someone new. It was my chance to be someone successful. So, I worked at it. When I wasn’t doing school work, I was reading. This was partly because I didn’t want to make friends or ever be happy in
Georgia in spite of my parents, and partly because I found that I liked reading and didn’t really mind school work. In a matter of weeks my grades improved dramatically and I was spending all the time I could in books. I am sure that quite a few people called me a variety of colorful names behind my back, but I didn’t care. It was a nice feeling not having that nagging voice following me around saying, “What are you going to do with your life with grades like those?”
It didn’t take long to make friends, either. My new academic advance made me a little more confident and a little more outgoing. Maybe “outgoing” is the wrong word. Maybe it was more like “loud,” but either way, it was something I had never been before. I was someone new and I was finally free.
It is important not to get too attached to who you are because there are always opportunities for improvement. You can’t be scared of stepping out of your comfort zone. It is often the best thing you can do for yourself.
I went peach picking with some of my friends last spring. It turns out I like peaches.
Hi,friend you are right because the same thing happend to me as it happened to you. Changing in your life is the big thing that you have to think about before you get into it.Sometimes change happens accidentaly that you can't realize what is going to happen for the next time. For example if i take myself,when i was a kid i went to school to kindergarden and from that day on all my friends that i know there came with me upto the junior school,we were happy, we play together and we went to the same school.You know it doesn't seem that one day some thing is gonna happen and your life is starting to change.At this time i was living in Africa and i was born there too. But after the junior school finished i came to Europe and there all things start to change; School,friends,environment,culture and different society. At first i was shocked , i don't know what to do or what to say but when i start to go to school i realized that things were changing , i met new friends , new teachers and also i learned a new language. At first when i was in Africa my grade in the school were higher,but when i came to Europe it was getting lower and lower ,as the result they became lower than the average grade.It was strange to me to see those grades that i haven't had before. But year by year as i was going from one level to another level,my grades start to get higher and higher and at last it was all normal. Then after a couple of years i came to United States of America as an exchane student, now i live in U.S.A ,when i came here nothing became strange to me neither the school nor the friends,instead i make a lot of friends. The reason is that because i have just got an experience in the past about change in life as you grow up and you can learn of your personal future so as you said before in your statment " Change isn't always bad",and i agree on your paragraph.