This I Believe

Believe in What Others Do

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In middle school, there was a kid in most of my classes, let’s call him Jake. I knew Jake through middle school, but never really talked to him. As we entered high school, I started studying harder and he turned to less mentionable actions, eventually getting expelled. In my sophomore year of high school, I was walking home one day with my friend and out of nowhere, Jake appeared behind me, struck the right side of my jaw, and made off with all of eleven dollars, leaving me with a broken jaw and my friend stunned.

            After a quick ride of the one tenth of a mile left to my house by a random passing motorist, I stood over my kitchen sink thing how anyone could do this to another person. After the police were called and my statement was given through shrieks of pain, I was whisked to the dentist office to try to stop my bleeding mouth from were I thought a tooth was missing, and told my jaw was broken. At this point I was left in a precarious position of either going to the emergency room or trying to see if an oral surgeon office was open. As we arrived at the oral surgeons office, we saw them walking out at the end of a work day, only to have them rush me inside to fix me, all after their normal work hours. It is actions like these or the dentist that gave me a tow hundred dollar powered toothbrush, Smoothie King giving me a hundred dollar gift card and a shirt saying that chewing is overrated when I was on a strict liquid diet, or my friend who stood by me and testified against Jake that have shown me that;

It is not the words that make you who you, but your actions when face with unusual circumstances that show your true character