Role models in life

     Guidance through our early years of life is essential. We all need someone to look up to as a role model. Whether it’s an older sibling, friend, or parent, somebody becomes a mentor for you. They will guide us through life. As we learn from their mistakes, and become our own person, we find your own dislikes and likes. When we become older we discover these things we had convinced our selves of must be sorted from the actual truth.

     Follow that person you look up to in life, but don’t do what is wrong just because they do. Tom makes this mistake in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He learns things from Huckleberry Finn. He makes decisions based off of what he has learned from Huck. When a child looks up to you for guidance you need to be careful what you do around them. In the story when Huck was smoking his pipe, Tom got curious and decide to try it. He is hurting himself, and does not know it is bad, because of the things he is normally around. To him this is a natural environment, and nothing more.

     Things aren’t always this serious as they were with Tom, for me. My role model was my sister, Taylor. When I was younger I tried to be like her in every single way. Whether it was things like what food I liked, or what I was afraid of. My sister didn’t like jelly, so she would eat just peanut butter sandwiches. Since she didn’t like it, neither did I. I had convinced myself that I actually didn’t like jelly. I never ate jelly again until 6th grade when my dad told me that I would like it, and I did. I had discovered that what I had thought when I younger was just because I wanted to be like Taylor. There were many things I had thought I disliked, but truthfully I had liked them, or never even tried them. I was discovering my own likes, and dislikes.
Looking up to someone when were younger is an experience that teaches us we shouldn’t be someone were not. We all need to grow up at some point, and become our own person. Learn from those around you and discover the Truth.