
The most influential people in my life have always been the people closest to me. Robyn: You Become Who You Spend Your Time With. But after you’ve worked your ass off as a server only to have someone stiff you - or worse, skip out on the bill that you now have to cover yourself - you’ll understand how good it feels to do the right thing and not be a piece of crap human being. In the 250 Words series, the RU Student Life writers are posed a question, and in 250 words they each offer their insights. It’s so tempting to do something that you know is wrong, like a classic dine & dash.

Sure, you’ll look back at those years with nostalgia and wish you could have that metabolism back, but you aren’t going to miss being overly dependent on your parents for money, and you certainly won’t miss having to beg your friend’s older brother to buy your alcohol.ĭoing the wrong thing is easy, but doing the right thing is more rewarding. Sonder the realization that everyone has a story, Realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own, Each story told From the Urban Dictionary. You could be in your 50s before you experience them - but trust me when I say nothing is going to suck more than high school and college. The best years of your life are going to come later, maybe even way later. Stop believing the BS people tell you about how you’re going to regret missing out on experiences in your late teens/early 20s. But those beliefs are tested when she has a chance encounter with the town baker, a fox, who believes that everyone deserves a second chance. She stubbornly believes that all predators are monsters.

Don’t judge other people for how they live they’re just getting through life the best they know how, same as the rest of us. After escaping from prison, Dawn Bellwether travels to BunnyBurrow, aching for revenge on the cops who wronged her.

The fact that a story has many meanings, some too complex for easy explication, does not mean that the story lacks coherence. Live and let live, it’s the only way any of us are going to be content. High school won’t be the best years of your life. The story has a life of its own, and when we attach ourselves to that story, we are not necessarily attaching ourselves to it in the same way, or for the same reasons.
