freewrite 2/14/06

truth you thought you knew?

i thought a Lady at work was a good friend and i thought i could trust her, but found out i couldn't.
a lady at work who always says she's friends with everybody but she spreads rumours as fast as you can tell them. i consider her as a friend but i am always aware of things i cannot tell her. She's a nice lady and she's very convincing about talking with people cos she doesn't trust many people either. But at my work lies ans other rumours spread really fast so its hard to do anything with anybody cos if she finds out then it's more likely that everyone in the store finds out and then they sort of harass you about it.
I thought i knew her so well and i trusted her with a lot of personal things until i found out that she blabs stuff to people and now i don't talk much about personal things with her, but i was disappointed when i found out that she doesn't keep secrets.

when i was in 2nd grade, I thought panda bears could live in australia. but found out that they live in china

2/9/06 freewrite 1

i have had to try and convince people at work to trade shifts with me and i try to promise i'll help them out when they need it. I'm really good at keeping my promises that i make to people so i don't feel like i'm taking people for granted. ive even had to give up some of my shifts to make them happy


I remember my sister used to convince me to trade stuff i had that was mine for something stupid or that i'd regret later. I remember once i had a toy and my sister convinced me to trade it for an oreo or something like that.

When i was in high school i was convinced to smoke by my friends cos i thought it was cool, it was bad cos i ended up getting hooked and smoked for two years before my parents convinced me to choose between singing and smoking the choice was clear to me, but the fact that i was easily conned into smoking. Even today it is hard for me sometimes to not smoke like when i get stressed i want to smoke but i convince myself otherwise.

our culture convinces people to do a lot of things through ads, tv, computers.. Like smoking they show that it's cool to smoke but they don't show the consequences and they don't say how many people die from it. they also have ads that show huge portions of food on tv and in magazines to get people hungry, and they wonder why america has the highest obesity rate. Our culture has a real problem in convincing people how to act what to wear what to eat what music to listen to. it's rediculous.