Learning a valuable lesson in life
Phillip Robinson
English 032
February 11, 2014
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Learning A Valuable Lesson In Life
On May 27, 2011, I came to know of a lesson that was indeed learned the hard way. I was asked to leave my home and never return. This day was and still is the hardest day I have ever come to know. It was emotional and most of all, it opened my eyes to a world that I had not yet known.
The day started out like any other day in my life. I was on vacation at the beach getting ready to come home. I packed my things and loaded up the car and started down the road. My car alarmed me with the gas light flashing so I pulled over at the nearest exit to fill up before continuing my drive back to the homestead. When I got back in the car, I noticed that my cell phone had no service and could only make an emergency call. I fiddled with it for a few minutes, then laid it down, thinking I’m probably just in a bad reception area and didn’t touch it again until I got to a friend’s house to drop her off from our vacation.
As I helped her unpack her things out of the car, her phone rang and she answered. I could hear a slight change of tone in her voice, so I stopped to see if I could find out what the conversation was about. When she got off the phone, she looked at me with fear in her eyes and said, “Phillip, you may want to sit down, I have some bad news.” Immediately my heart sank, thinking one of my family members was injured or had passed while I was gone. She began to tell me that, that was Mitchell, my significant other at the time. He was calling to ask her if she’d inform me, that I all my belongings were packed, all of the locks on the house were changed and that my cellular service had been suspended.
After initially hearing this, for a moment I became numb and tried to process everything that she was trying to tell me. I couldn’t believe the things I was hearing. When the initial shock wore off, I began sobbing, wondering what in the hell has happened. Where is
English 032
February 11, 2014
Paragraph 1
Learning A Valuable Lesson In Life
On May 27, 2011, I came to know of a lesson that was indeed learned the hard way. I was asked to leave my home and never return. This day was and still is the hardest day I have ever come to know. It was emotional and most of all, it opened my eyes to a world that I had not yet known.
The day started out like any other day in my life. I was on vacation at the beach getting ready to come home. I packed my things and loaded up the car and started down the road. My car alarmed me with the gas light flashing so I pulled over at the nearest exit to fill up before continuing my drive back to the homestead. When I got back in the car, I noticed that my cell phone had no service and could only make an emergency call. I fiddled with it for a few minutes, then laid it down, thinking I’m probably just in a bad reception area and didn’t touch it again until I got to a friend’s house to drop her off from our vacation.
As I helped her unpack her things out of the car, her phone rang and she answered. I could hear a slight change of tone in her voice, so I stopped to see if I could find out what the conversation was about. When she got off the phone, she looked at me with fear in her eyes and said, “Phillip, you may want to sit down, I have some bad news.” Immediately my heart sank, thinking one of my family members was injured or had passed while I was gone. She began to tell me that, that was Mitchell, my significant other at the time. He was calling to ask her if she’d inform me, that I all my belongings were packed, all of the locks on the house were changed and that my cellular service had been suspended.
After initially hearing this, for a moment I became numb and tried to process everything that she was trying to tell me. I couldn’t believe the things I was hearing. When the initial shock wore off, I began sobbing, wondering what in the hell has happened. Where is