College Admissions Essay: What Goes Around Comes Around

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“What goes around comes around” -Eddie Stone I’ve heard the saying “what goes around comes around” many times throughout my life. I first heard it in the song by Justin Timberlake that came out some years ago, however, the quote originates from Eddie Stone in a book that he wrote in 1974. I remember one time when I was younger, I had went with my mom to Hollister and there was lip gloss laying in a chair and I took it. I thought for sure something bad would happen to me after that, but luckily, it didn’t. Besides that, there’s plenty of bad things i’ve did in my life that i’m surprised hasn’t came back to me yet. I’ve been mean to people a lot of times in my life for no reason and I really do think that has came back to me a couple of times. When I was in 6th grade, we were pretty obnoxious and rude to my teacher, and she didn’t deserve it at all. Some of the kids would put stuff in her hair and use her answers to cheat on things, which I never did that stuff, but I was pretty mean to her in other ways. That’s why she emailed my parents one day talking about my behavior and I got in trouble and got my phone and some other things taken away, so that was definitely karma. There was other times where I made fun of certain …show more content…

I think we should use it in everyday life by being good to others and doing good deeds because you never know when something good could happen to you. God always works in mysterious ways and i’ve found that a lot of times when you’ve did good things, he repays you for that. A lot of people have memories of how we treated them and that influences how they treat us, so it’s important for us to always be kind to others-especially if they’re kind to you. We should all work on being selfless and polite to others so we can be repaid for the good that we’ve

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