Breaking The Commitment In High School

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We all make commitments. Whether you commit to your school, the armed forces, your spouse, or even to brushing your teeth every day, everyone commits to something. With my life, I have committed to DanceArt Studio, Cleveland Middle School’s Battle of the Books team, and to Vic Coffin Karate, as a student and as a volunteer in their After School Program. These obligations are special to me and to others. To disregard them would bring negative consequences that not only affected me, but those who depend on me to be there for them. When you break a commitment, you tell others they aren’t good enough or important enough for you to keep it. You tell them that your time is more important than theirs, and you put your self-centeredness on full display. …show more content…

If I didn’t help them with their schoolwork, they could fail their assignment and I would lose credibility in the eyes of the owners of the facility and the students. Breaking the commitment of showing up to dance class would make it harder for my team to practice, and I couldn’t get better. By breaking the commitment of doing my best in dance class, I would make the team worse and would not be able to receive awards and grants that are given at competitions. Supposing I break the commitment of learning in karate, I can’t teach others and I can’t be promoted. Not keeping up with the responsibilities that come with being a karate student means that I hinder the learning of others and could get hurt. In case of breaking the commitment of practicing in battle of the books, I couldn’t help my team and wouldn’t be able to compete against other schools. By not practicing with my teammates we wouldn’t work well together and wouldn’t win. Despite the worrying consequences of my commitments, I have learned many things from all of them, and I think the most apparent example of this is in the After School

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