How I Survive
What are your secret survival strategies? How I Survive It takes a lot for me to survive in today's society. What I have done is improve. Today, I have more people I can call friends than ever before. I have gained speaking skills when I used to stumble through my words, and I’d say I have become half funny. I have learned that it is important to make friends to get through life. At first, I didn’t find the point. I could just drift through school, get good grades, and talk to my parents at home. I later learned that there are some things that I don’t want to tell my parents, some things that they don’t understand, and most importantly, I just can’t be silent all day, keeping what I want to say inside. My unfunny jokes, opinions on teachers, and the upcoming basketball game. Once I learned this I of course needed to make friends, but I did not know how. The way I chose to make friends was through sports. In basketball you spend hours each day with a small number of peop...