To start off I would like to say that this whole situation started with trust. I cannot truly explain how much trust from my father I had lost because of this silly event. If I had been truly thinking I know I would have made the correct decision and I would not have stolen the skateboard. Also I would like to say that my father's trust in me will never be as high as it was.
In fact I would like to explain how I am going to eventually gain my father's trust back. First off I will have to stop lying to him for even the littlest things like if I knew where the remote was or what not. Eventually it will snowball into big events like where a party is and who is going to be there and so on. If it is even possible to gain my father's trust back, I will do these things slowly and gradually until my father can trust me once again. I know this is a great responsibility and that I definitely know I have learned from this experience. In many ways I believe this has had a greatly positive impact upon my life, as I have learned how valuable my father's trust is. I also believe that trust is a very hard thing to learn. With this in mind I would like to say that I will take high pride in gaining my father's trust back for it means I had made a huge mistake, and I had successfully made up for it. It also means that with his trust I know I am a better person because I learned many things through gaining it back.
My father's trust is very important to me, not only for being able to be free just like any teenager would need it, but because it means that my father is proud of me. When I successfully gain my father's trust, by showing how much I can be trusted, I will be extremely proud of myself. I know that from now on my decisions will be thought thoroughly, in the event of another happening like this. I will also be able to make the correct decision instead. I also hope that with my gaining of my father's trust back comes a new thing, respectability. I also hope to prove to my father that I am a great kid, and that I want to gain his trust back. This is why I went through all the effort of Teen Court just to prove to my father that I will make up for my mistakes, and fix them accordingly.
I would like to say that my father's trust is going to be a very hard thing to gain and that one of the first things to help along with gaining it back is successfully completing Teen Court. This is one of my major goals on the difficult trek of gaining my father's trust back. I also would like to re-iterate upon how difficult this is going to be and that my father's trust will never be the same. I hope only that by my mistake I will learn many things in return.
