F.+Midterm+Essay

Lauran Queenan Running away Running away from home is very dangerous and you could more than likely end up living on the streets without anything to survive with. Having no food or water to survive with will cause you to have many health problems which you do not want to have at such a young age. Also, it could because you do to things you probably will not want to do. Alice, you should not run away from home because it could worry your parents, you could get really hurt, and you could get into a lot of trouble.

Running away from home could cause you to get hurt in some kind of way. If you do not have food or water or even a place to live, you might have to pan handle. Pan handling will cause you to get into some ones car that might end up raping you, beating you or even killing you. When you are homeless you have to sleep on the streets. Sleeping on the streets could cause people to make mean remarks to you while you are trying to sleep, they could even run over you with their car to try and hurt you.

If a teenager runs away that could make the parents worry. The parents would not know where their son or daughter is, that would make them call the cops to have them look for you. Running away would make the parents start to stress out. Because they do not know where their child is, it could make them not be able to sleep at night, eat when they need to, or even be able to concentrate while they are at work. If the parents cannot find you it could cause them to go into deep depression which you do not want to make your parents do.

Being on the streets could get you into a lot of trouble. Being homeless there is not a lot of things to do, so you may start doing drugs with the other homeless people. Doing drugs can land you in jail, dead, or someplace that you do not want to be at. You do not want to be in jail because the other inmates might beat you or rape you. When you do drugs it causes you not to remember what you are doing or did during that day. You do not listen to people and all you want to do is get your fix, it does not matter what you have to do.

Teenagers may think running away from home is not a big deal. They think it would help them learn how to be independent and how to live on their own. But, they are wrong! Running away from home is scary and you will not know what to do. It is not a place for teenagers to be at and it is not the way to learn how to be independent. So, do me a favor and do not run away!