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Let Bygones be Bygones

A time in my life that I will always have memories of is being sent to J.J.A.E.P, which stands for Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Program in the 8th grade. The reason I was emitted to alternative school was because I brought a container of painkillers to school. I will not go into much detail about my time in J.J.A.E.P but it was a time that I wouldn’t want to relive. It was a moment in my life that I wanted to forget about completely and just move along. This right here is a good example of me siding with the saying “ Let bygones be bygones”. What this quote means in todays society is that let the unpleasant events that took place in your past be forgotten. The Saying “Let bygones be bygones” dates way back in the 15th century when Shakespeare used the word “bygone” which simply meant ‘a thing that has gone by’, in his play called “The Winters Tale,” 1611: “This satisfaction, The by-gone-day proclaym'd, say this to him.” As the years blew past the word “bygone” became more to be known as events that took place in the past specifically events that people don’t favor to remember. Disregarding the moments in your life that seem to be unpleasant to you or someone can be good because it wont haunt you at the most vulnerable moments in your life but at the same time its not good to just let bygones be bygones as they say because how is someone ever going to learn from their mistakes? So I believe that this quote can be debated and turned into something more like “Always remember the rough times.” The reason I choose to flip the quote the way I did is because all of the things I have done to be unsatisfying to others, myself, or even just being flat out wrong, I learned from those things and it has taught me to better myself as a person and as well as to better the things I do with my with my life. One example I can think of is when I got my first speeding ticket. Now I know that no one would be pleased to get a speeding ticket and when

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