Once when I was at a party with some close friends, a really good-looking men I didn’t know came over to me. “Hey what’s your name? Would you like to come smoke a cigarette with me?” The first thing that popped into my mind was how my mom always taught me never to smoke because it is bad and could cause serious health problems. After I remembered that “no thank you” was quickly spoken out of my mouth. I was kind of afraid that the girl wouldn’t talk to me after that but I still held my ground. In the end, she and I became good friends.
First and foremost, my mom has taught me to be happy and true to myself because I can never not face myself, and the choices I make. “Think before you act,” “you will always have a choice to be happy or sad, to do what is good or bad and to do the ...