I think that people get new starts, new chances and new beginnings every day. Whether they’re getting off their report card or they’re moving house, it’s a fresh start. Some people say that a fresh start is bad. Some people say it’s good. For me I’d have to say that it depends on the circumstance. I mean, if I were in a school that I loved, with friends that I loved and an area that made me happy, and then all of a sudden my Mum says: ‘Hey, do you want to move to California and live on the beach?’ then sure I would hate every stinking moment of it while I was packing right up to the point where I would leave. But then, maybe once I get there it would be different. Maybe I’d find new friends; keep the old and stay with the new. Have it both ways. Maybe I could find an equally good school. Maybe I could find a great area. So I think it definitely depends on the circumstance. 

Mind you, if it was me and my Mum really did want me to move I would refuse point blank and storm off in a huff.

I think that a new chance in something good though. Like if you got in trouble and you wanted to just let it go but the teachers went on and on and on and on about it, all you’d want is a fresh start and to start from the beginning. Learn from the mistake.

Well not learn from the mistake and never do it again, just shut your mouth so you don’t get any more trouble, and learn to get in trouble with the right people who won’t snitch on you.

Anyway, you learn from the mistake and move on. For example, today I had a massive argument with my teacher about how all the teachers at my school are institutionalized. God They get on my nerves. But it’s true; Teachers always institutionalize and it gets on my bloody nerves. But I don’t want a detention so I’m hoping for another chance- I’ll probably have another argument with him like, next week or something.

An new beginning is different though. It’s like… the end of a chapter and the start of a new one… like finishing your favourite book and then having to read a different one. It doesn’t quite satisfy if the second book isn’t as good as the first.

Sometimes a new beginning is like when someone dies. Like, for example if your grandad died and then you had to try and move on. There’s so much to work through emotionally as well as trying to cope with the funeral. First you have to get over the tears and the horribleness of what has just happened, then you have to make sure that your family are okay and support them. It’s horrible. 

But once all of that is over, you feel stronger. It brings you closer together with your family; I’m not saying it’s a good thing, a loved one dying. Just that if it happens then at least you come out of the other and better then you were at the start.

So a new start. It can be good or bad. Just make sure that you start it in the best possible way and you will have a good experience.