Humans of AR

Pride and Mistakes

“A few years ago, right? I was young I was distracted, my mom asked me to watch her, right? And like you know what I just decided to stop paying attention and do something I wanted to do. Luckily she landed on a pillow so it was all fine but like… yeah. I was scared”

“I guess I’m proudest of my academic career, since I always held up good grades throughout my schooling, but I don’t really feel like I have earned the ability to be proud of myself, when I get my bachelors degree in welding, that’s when I earned that right.”

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