1. Ms. West Teaches Morality


    Date: 6/13/2024, Categories: First Time Author: baileigh22

    As we grow up, our morality changes. What we learn to be right and wrong is black and white when we are younger. As we grow older the, the black and white start to turn to grey. The grey becomes a disagreement about what is right and wrong. Some people may think it is right, some people may think it is wrong, and others may think it depends on the situation. We all remember the book "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten." Play fair, don’t hit people, don’t take things that aren’t yours, wash your hands before you eat, flush, and among other things that are in the book that we do believe we should practice when we are older. When we get older, though, there are things that we all disagree on. When I got older, I learned that something I thought was wrong was not.
    
    Growing up in a conservative Christian family, I was brought up with strict values. I went to a Christian school my whole, and those strict values were forced in my thinking. One of those strict values is that marriage is between a man and a woman. The whole of homosexuality is an abomination bullshit. I really did believe this growing up. Even though I thought this, there was something different about me. I first realized this when I had my first boyfriend. He was a super sweet boy that all the girls in our school had a crush on. We all know how some of those early relationships are though (sitting together at lunch, holding hands, and maybe going to the movies and kissing in the back of the ...
    ... theater). When you are dating the guy all the girls like in school, you should feel great about yourself. Especially when you go to the movies and see a scary movie. After the movie, I couldn't tell people what the movie was about.
    
    Something didn’t feel right. I don’t know if it was because of the way he kissed me or if it was something about me. We ended up breaking up. Let’s be honest. Most of these first relationships don’t always work. After we broke up, I still could not figure out what was different about me. Something else I could not figure out, but for some reason, I always got excited to go to my Chemistry class taught by Ms. West. I was never very good at science class in my life, and really hated it. Something would happen to me every time I would enter Ms. West’s class, but I could not explain it.
    
    When I was taking Chemistry, I was also dating Johnny. He was the star running back. I was a cheerleader, so everything was like you see in the high school movies. I hated the fact that I was dating Johnny because of the whole cheerleader/football player dynamic, but he was so kind and respectful that I looked past it. I remember when he asked me to the dance and feeling a few butterflies but shocked he asked me. We started dating the rest of the year after that, and I felt like the most popular girl in school. Every Friday night, cheering for him. On every Saturday night, I would hang out with Johnny and his friends. I discovered some drinking games during this time, ...
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