<p>In my junior year, my best friend started to experiment with drugs. I expressed my concern to her about the issue, but she reassured me that it was only once, and she just wanted to try it. I didn’t agree, but I felt that it was her decision and trusted her when she said it would only be once. In a matter of weeks she went from being a smart, good student to skipping classes and doing drugs every day. After she had missed school for a week I decided that it was important for me, as her best friend, to tell her mom what she was doing. The day I got up the courage to tell her mother, I told her that her daughter had started taking drugs, and that I was terribly sorry for not informing her earlier, but I felt as though it had become a problem. To my complete shock, she simply said that she was aware of what was going on and thanked me for letting her know. Unfortunately, the talk I had with her mother did absolutely nothing. By the end of the school year, my friend had lost all of her friends and dropped out of school. It hurt to see that she cared more about the drugs then keeping up a friendship with me, but I learned that there is only so much you can do to save a person from themselves. If this situation were to happen again, I would intervene directly, instead of going to a figure that I feel would do what I intended to. For me, losing my best friend to drugs was the hardest thing that has happened in my life.</p>
<p>Can someone please critique my essay?</p>
<p>To be honest, I wouldn’t post your essay directly on this site.
Instead make a post asking for people to critique your essay and message it to them.
By posting it directly on the site. you run a big risk of someone trying to steal your essay.</p>
<p>As for the essay, I’ll be honest- I don’t see how it has helped you grow personally.</p>
<p>Agreed, it’s pretty much pointless.</p>
<p>yup yup. u have to elaborate how it influenced u for the better.</p>