Most important lesson i've ever learned.

I would have to say that when I was 15 years old in high school i was told by a "friend" that I had at the time to sneak out my bedroom window one night, led to a new high school and scaled the roof with them and walked in.. as I sat against the wall, freaking out that I was going to get in so much trouble by my parents. The people I was with at the time were screwing around in the garbage cans... all in all the police came and took us to jail. I was so freaked out to call my parents that I didn't call them at all. They were contacted by the police saying their daughter was in jail and to come pick her up.. my parents went to my room to tell me they were going to pick my sister up from jail, until they found that I wasn't there. My parents called the jail back and told them to leave me there. The charges were dropped to a misdemeanor and because I had never done something so stupid in my life, had great grades, was on honor roll, in AP classes.. I didn't have any charges against me and they let me out after three days.

I turned 16 in juvy.. I felt like a failure.. it is the most important lesson I have ever learned because you realize who your friends are and that school is very important to you. The only person who cared enough was my athletic medicine teacher who sought me out after I had been dropped and re-enrolled to all my classes and he put the whole thing together and took me in his office and gave me a life speech. He helped me get back on track and onto my career path in medicine which I had been interested in since day one of starting that three year course. I have stayed out of trouble since and I learned a very valuable life lesson.