Assignment 5

A turning point in my life

I often hear of how people make some new discovery of their life and come out seeing things differently. I had always wondered how it would feel like to have something important in your life turn into something else. I didn’t understand the feeling because no such moment has ever happen to me until May 2009.

At that time, I felt like I was at a place where almost everything is perfect. I was enjoying my new course in UCSI, my family was doing okay, I had tons of friends to hang around with and I just starting dating this awesome guy. It was all perfect until this one day. It was a day that I will remember for the rest of my life.

I was finalizing my assignment with one of my friends when I got a phone call by my friend, Justin*. He asked me to stay at home and that he was coming to my house now. He told me that something has happen to a girl named Cameron* and ask me to imagine the worst and the worst thing I could imagine at that time was that Joey*, which was one of my guy friend has done something to her because I knew they were supposed to go somewhere and we all knew that he had this crazy crush on her that she didn’t return but didn’t fully reject him because she was afraid to hurt him.

Justin* finally arrived at my place together with Cameron* and the moment they came in she starting crying. I sat them down to ask them what had happen and my worst fear was confirmed.

Joey* had tried to force himself on her.

I couldn’t believe I was hearing this because I had known him since Form 2, and he does not come as a guy that would do such a thing. I didn’t know what to make out of the whole thing. After calming her down and hearing her side of the story, we went over to Joey’s* place to talk to him. He story was totally different from Cameron’s. I didn’t know who to believe but common sense tells me that a girl would not lie about something so serious. So we talk to Joey’s parents and told him the whole incident. He cried, she cried, we cried but that was just the beginning of the drama. As more and more people starts hearing about the incident, more question came flooding in, some of us were divided because some believe him and some believe her. Nasty words were shot from both side and I was caught in the middle and as time pass, some of us just stop talking to each other. We never learned what really happened.

Through this, I learned that things could really turn sour if not handled properly, and that people that you think you know from the inside out may turn out to be just wearing a mask. Now, whenever I get to know somebody new or even talk to people, there is always a little feeling deep inside me that doubts the persons. I guess the whole thing thought me that the world isn’t as simple as I thought.

*Names has been change for privacy purposes.