by Samantha L, Staff Writer
As a senior with only 5 days left of finally Graduating, it’s crazy to think about everything I’ve experienced in my 4 years of highschool. Despite not going to Galileo for 4 years, my first and last year here has been great. I got to meet new people, make friends and make new memories in a different new environment.
While not at Galileo, I think my hardest year was freshman year. Freshman year was CRAZY. If someone gave me a Time Machine I would totally go back and change everything. I was very naive back then, people took advantage of me. I was not okay, physically and mentally, there would be times where I would want to just stay home and not go to school as a way to not deal with everything that was going on at school, which affected my grades and attendance.
At school I was in a very toxic environment, mostly because of the people I was surrounding myself with. They would cause unnecessary drama, like getting into fights with random people just because they gave them the stink eye, or would make false rumors or false allegations of people, sometimes they would also get into arguments with teachers for no reason. I never questioned this type of behavior, it was just so normalized to me since I also spent my full three years of middle school with the same kind of toxic people.
But my whole perspective of that group changed towards the end of freshman year. I was walking along with a friend to class. I didn’t know at that time, my “friends” had some type of trouble with them, so I didn’t think much of it. Me and my friend were passing by the group, they first looked at me confused. One of them was asking me what I was doing with them and I just told them that they were my friend, I didn’t think it would be any trouble.
They just looked at me and then looked at my friend. They told her to leave me alone and were threatening her that they were going to fight her if they saw her with me ever again. My friend was confused and didn’t know what to do or say so she just left and kept on walking to class. I then looked at the group and demanded to tell them why it was such trouble for me to be hanging out with my friend. They gave me such a petty answer, “We just don’t like her, she’s just weird”. I looked at them so confused and annoyed, and it was like my eyes finally opened.
I then just walked away and never turned back. I caught up with my friend and told her sorry for all that. She just smiled at me and told me she was happy that I finally cut that group off. After that, I stopped talking to that group and ended up hanging out with my new friend. Bianca was the reason I improved better with my grades and made me become a better person and student.
I am so glad that I was able to cut off that friend group and realize what type of toxic, petty people they really are. I never got in touch with them or talked to them, they never bothered to do the same with me. To anyone who is also experiencing the same thing, just know there are better friends and better people you can surround yourself with. 2222
