Humans of AR

Looking Forward by Remembering the Past

By Rowan D. from Academy of the Redwoods in California

“ … I was … a very fearless little kid so I would like to lift up rocks… and I would like looking for bugs… my grandpa would go with me and he passed away quite a while ago so if I had to pick one memory I think … it would be those because… those are the only memories I have left of him since it was such a long time ago…”

“... I think making mistakes definitely shapes who you are as a person and I’ve made a few big mistakes but I think they’ve made me who I am today because I grew from them and I learned that nobody’s perfect and no matter how hard you try to please everybody you can’t please everybody so you might as well please yourself…”

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