JN#9

What Is the best advice you ever recieved? My uncle ,who is like my dad,gave me the best advice. I used to have friends that were bad influence on me, and I did pretty much what they did in school. I would ditch my classes, be mean to other kids, and never paid attention in class. I was pretty much one of the bad kids in junior high. My grades were D's and F's. my friends and I thought that was cool, but when I got home my parents were very upset. My uncle told me that friends come and go but when your in trouble the family is the one that saves you. some friends want you to succeed and some want you to become bumbs. He told me to stay in school, because with more education you will become something much more. Through high school my so called friends didn't really talk to me because I tried to do the best I could. I stopped hanging around them and met some new friends. Through out the school year three of whom I used to kick it with had a baby, two others dropped out, and bout three got into drugs and alcohol. Out of all of them I was the only one that graduted and the only one going to school as of now. My uncle was right. My family was the one that stuck with me.