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SAT Prompt: Do we benefit from learning about the flaws of people we admire and respect? ** SAT Essay ** In life, people have certain expectations that they want to live up to. Everyone’s point of view on life is always different. Most people look up to others, or have a “role model” a person that they admire and respect the most. But these so called “role models” make mistakes too and can’t always be perfect. This let’s the world know that, not everyone is perfect and we can learn from someone else’s mistake, especially if their flaws and imperfections start to show. We benefit from learning about flaws from the people that we admire and respect because we learn from their mistakes, make better choices, and get to know them even better. For the past 16 years of my life, I have yet to call someone my “role model”. I did not think anyone in this world was amazing enough to look up to. No one in this world has made a huge impact on my life, or can make me second guess that. But recently, I have discovered that I actually have a great hero in my life, my mom. She has been through it all, and she has never let me down. At the age of 16, she was already pregnant with me. It was hard for her to attend to high school, be a teenager, and have a baby on the way. Life was not easy, and she most definitely was not ready for a child any time soon. But, she was not going to give up. My mom was very independent during her teenage years, so she believed in herself 100%. Therefore, her and my dad moved into a small apartment up in Northern, Virginia, and decided to have me. My mom gave up just about everything, all because of me. She missed most of high school, her senior prom, hanging out with friends, shopping and most importantly, the end of her childhood. I’m very grateful to have someone in my life like her, to go through what she went through just for me. But one thing leads to another, and this by far was her biggest mistake. Her whole life changed, because she made a careless mistake and didn’t expect the unexpected. This showed me life can change in a snap of a finger, and one little thing can make a big difference. Her parents always told her, she is going to have to deal with the consequences aside to her actions. My grandparents were never really strict when they raised her. They trusted her completely and let her have plenty of freedom. That was their first mistake; too much freedom is never good. As a child, growing up, my mom was an excellent kid. Throughout elementary school, my mom had to take on many responsibilities. Everyday after school, she walked by herself and went home to an empty house. Her mom was always working, and her dad was not in the picture. Being a young child and taking on adult responsibilities, led to a great amount of trust between my mom and my grandmother. From that point, my grandma never doubted her and believed everything that my mom said. Then the teenage years struck and my mom was not completely honest with my grandma. When she went out, she told her mom “I’m going out and I will be back in a few.” Without a doubt, my grandma believed she was being smart and always making the right choices. During her teenage years, she never really had to check in, tell her mom who she was with, or where exactly she was going to be. She was always trusted and her mom always took her word for it. But eventually, something bad was bound to happen. Before she knew it, my mom was getting ready to become a teen mom. But because of her expectations she had claimed to live up to, she took every consequence and dealt with it. If my grandma enforced rules more, or even knew the real truth about where my mom had been, this could have been prevented. Now that my mom is older, and knows what could happen when a teen has been given to much freedom, she does all that she can to check up on me. I tell her where I am, and who I am with, so she is comfortable knowing that I am safe, and make good choices. But after finding out what could happen if I made the wrong turn like her, I think about my future and what it holds. Staying on the right path can lead to a bright future. I don't want to have to go through what she had to. Looking at her past, made me think about life twice. Every decision I make counts. Each day, I recognize the effort she puts in everything no matter what it is. I learn something new about her everyday, whether it is good or bad. Most of the time, we but heads and argue. We never get along and we disagree about everything. But after we battle it out, she eventually talks with me about it. Although fighting with her is disrespectful, it brings us closer in the end and teaches me things about her. When she gets the chance to talks to me, she expresses how apoligitec she is and tries to explain to me how much she really cares. Sometimes when our arguments get really harsh, she gets upset and tells me how much she sacrificed for me. This shows me that she does care about me and she just wants the best for me. In the past, my mom and I argued constantly about, the lack of trust she gives me. She did not give me the freedom I deserved, nor did she treat me my age. It got frustrating after awhile and I stopped listening to her complaining about the past. I later on spoke up, and told her that just because she made a mistake, does not mean that I will go and do the same. Finally, my mom finally gave me some trust after I proved to her that I can get good grades, hold down a job, cheerlead, and be responsible with my friends. She stills wonders about me while I'm off doing whatever, I can tell by the way she acts when I tell her I'm going out. This also shows me, she worries about me constantly and she hopes that I'm okay wherever I'm at. I never knew before how much she actually cares about me. She is always checking up on me to make sure I am okay and doing little things to help me out. It is the little things that count that shows me she cares. After all that we go through, I have discovered she only wants the best for me and she does everything to help me stay on the right path in life. When it comes down to it, nobody is perfect. Even the people we admire and respect have imperfections. My mom is a perfect example of someone in my life who had imperfections, that I took as a lesson and learned from. Her flaws are benificial to me because, I can take her past and take it as a life lesson. All her bad decisions led to bad consequences, which showed me what could happen, if I decided to take a wrong turn. Now that I know how unfortunate it is to be careless, I want to do everything I can to make good choices. I also benefit from my mom's flaws and imperfections, because I learn from her mistakes, make better choices, and I get to know her even better than before. Although she can not change them, it can help prevent me from making any in the future.