As a senior in high school I have experienced bonds through my peers, teachers, as well as relationships. My AP Lit teacher assigned us to write a conceit shortly after I began to experience a series of difficulties in my life. I began to question myself, I was betrayed by a friend and was in the middle of a breakup. On top of these bigger events smaller things such as mixing up due dates for assignments occurred, as a consequence my grades were slipping. Then there were also silly things such as spilling my coffee all over my self in school and disagreements with my parents were occurring. Everything stacked up and I felt like I ultimately could not catch a break. I tried having a positive mindset then something else would occur and I started to feel like things were not going to get better. I opened up to my coaches, and my two closest friends. At times when I was a mess and ugly crying they still listened to me. At times when I admitted to sabotaging my progress they called me out but still gave me advice. I realized that the awesome guy I was devastated of losing was ruining me and was not so awesome. I learned that there are good people but there are also people that are going to hurt you. Although, I realized that there are people on my side, there are people that are there for me and those are the people I should be surrounding myself with. I realized that bad feelings don't last forever and you just need to take action from letting them linger. Although this poem was originally an assignment I believe that it ultimately put everything into perspective for me.