Puppets In College

I believe in staying true to yourself and making choices for yourself, because in the end, everyone is alone in their own minds, and they will be left alone with the consequences of their choices. Regret is something that will eat away at you slowly and destroy you eventually. If people let others define their life, or make their decisions for them, then they are just a puppet. But who’s to say that we all are not puppets in a way in society.
There are roles everyone needs to fill, and there becomes an expected way society expects people to fill those roles. But that is aside from the point I am trying to make here.
If you let someone else control your life and not make any decisions for yourself, then when the day comes that you are expected
Her name was Brandi. She was mainly more my friend’s friend than mine. Brandi and I got along well enough, but were not close. She cornered me and dragged me to one of the slides where you do not get to use a floatie thing. At this time, I barely even knew how to swim, and another one of my friends did give me some tips and taught me to doggy paddle, but that was all I knew and my newly learned swimming skill was very weak. It wasn't much. Plus they literally taught me this not long before I was dragged outdoors by Brandi. Brandi went down the slide first, but she said if I didn’t do it, she’d come back up and force me to go down. I really did not want to go down the slide, but I did end up going down the slide, although looking back now there was several other options I could have done, but when I got to the bottom I went underwater, and could not make my way back to the surface. It seemed like forever, but eventually she grabbed me and dragged me out of the water. It was a good thing she did, because otherwise I most likely would have drowned.Therefore now, I try not to let people make decisions for me, and stay true to myself because in some cases it could literally be life or