A teenage joyride gone wrong serves as a powerful, albeit painful, lesson on the consequences of peer pressure, the impact of our actions on others, and the importance of trusting one's intuition.
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so when I was around 14 years old I was
trying really hard to fit in and be cool
I remember I had a group of friends that
I'd always get into trouble with we were
always up to no good
back in London where I was born and
raised you can get your driving license
by 17 but me and these two other guys
decided to steal his mum's car for a
joyride our parents were all at a
wedding together
one of my friends stole the spare set of
keys from his mum's purse and all three
of us got into the car and he started
driving I was so anxious and nervous
but I wanted to see him confident and
calm because I wanted to impress my
friends I wanted to tell us to stop and
get out but I joined in with the
adrenaline and excitement that came over
us three we were playing loud music I
think it was still Dre featuring Snoop
Dogg we turned the windows down were
nodding our heads to the B and thinking
we were so cool we were driving pretty
fast and then faster and faster and
faster and then we saw a guy we knew
walking down the street my friend who
was driving always bullied him and so he
started shouting out mean things to him
turning back to his window to do so
literally within seconds he'd lost
control of the car and we went straight
into another car it was a miracle
because none of us were hurt the car was
completely destroyed a couple of moments
later we saw our parents coming out of
this event hall we had crashed the car
right outside of the wedding our parents
were attending not only that how came
the owner of the car we had crashed into
which was parked outside his house there
was a huge crowd gathering our parents
were speaking to the owner of the other
car trying to explain the situation and
figure it out our family members and
friends were shaking their heads at us
looking at us really disappointed I felt
so stupid and like an idiot I learned
three really important lessons for
that experience the first one is our
actions affect other people we often
feel that our actions only affect us but
the truth is it affects a lot more
people we were so fortunate that no one
was in the car we crashed into we were
so fortunate that there wasn't a child
crossing the street but we still hurt
our parents we heard the person who had
the damaged car the second lesson I
learned is that we become an average of
the five people we spend most time with
at that time I chose to us around myself
by people I thought were cool and
troublemakers even when I felt
uncomfortable or nervous or anxious I
would hide that because I felt it made
me weak or soft your intuition and your
gut is always trying to guide you if you
have a voice in your head telling you
something is not good all right listen
to it more and lesson number three the
things we think are fun exciting and
dangerous in our teens are rarely the
things we look back on as being proud of
we can use our positive energy when
we're young for so much good in the
world to make such a difference to our
skills talents and hobbies don't waste
your potential trying to impress people
stand out by being yourself don't try to
fit in by giving up who you truly are
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