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Her

                You broke up with her. You feel free again and you think that she is out of your life forever. Now she is calling you over and over from different numbers. You change your number. You go to school. She is waiting for you at your usual parking spot. You let her in your car so you two can talk. She starts to scream and yell and call you names. You ask “what can I do to get you to go away”. She says “take me home”. You take her home. Now you are at her house. She is still screaming at you now she is hitting you. Now she is choking you. You don’t know what to do. You think about hitting her back. You don’t. Your better than that. So now you are running away. Now the cops are here. You charge her for assault. Where did you go wrong…?

Now its months later. She’s gone and out of your life. But you are paranoid about everything. You feel like you are being watched. You spend more time with friends. You say that it helps but it really doesn’t. Now it’s the end of the school day and you are walking back to your car. You hear a familiar voice say your name. You turn to look. You hear an ear shattering bang. Now you’re on the ground with a hole in your chest. The last thing you see before the  world goes black is her… where did you go wrong.

Some people tend to judge people by the way that they look, speak, and interact with other people. But that does not necessarily mean that is who they are as a person. People also believe that you will always be the same person and that people are not capable of change. And that they cannot ever change the way that they think and act. Good people make bad decisions all of the time that doesn’t mean that they are a bad person all together. Some people also believe that your personality is your core and it is who you are as a person. And a lot of people tend to judge other people by their past mistakes.

In the personality myth the author goes to a prison and starts talking to one of the inmates who she believed was a nice person and she had almost no clue why this man was in a prison. Until she found out what he was there for in the first place. The man was in prison for a sex crime and that was one of her biggest fears so she looked at him in a completely different way. And the inmate would assure her that the person who committed that crime was gone and she believed him because the person that she had come to know was not a rapist in her eyes.

The fact that people judge other people by their past mistakes to me is just wrong. Because if someone screws up once people will get mad at you but only for a little bit but they won’t be mad at you forever. And one other thing that I think I messed up is when people judge people by the way that they look. Because some might be sagging their pants and be wearing a shirt that is way too big for them. Then let’s say that you get to know this person and they end up being one of the smartest people you know and then you end up being really close friends with this person. Same thing for the way they talk. They might have a super strong southern accent and sound like a complete idiot but that person may be saying something super smart.