My name is Andrea. I am 12. It was October or November, i’m not sure what the date was, but I was on my computer when my mum called me. “Andrea come hear!” my mum said. So I came. When I got there she said that my brother told her that I threw the dog collar on the roof and for that I woud get a day with no computer. My brother is such a tatletaler. I told my mum that the dog was choking on it, but she thought I was lying so she woud take my punishment away. Then she said, “Well why didn’t you loosen the collar!” “It was as loose as it cooud be,” I answered. But still my mum woud not belive me. I argued with her and because I did she moved my punishment to a MONTH!!! No computer, no t.v, no Playstation 2, for 1 month.

After the day mum punished me I experienced the bad parts of the Secret, because everything else went wrong. I brought more pain in my life. I did know about The Secret, but I had noticed that I hadn’t used it in a long time. Because after I used The Secret to get a phone, laptop and more, I began using The Secret less and less and less, because I didn’t have a time where I was suposed to use The Secret. I just used it when I wanted, and when I got what I wanted I had more things to do and there was not a time where I was bored and had nothing to do. I used The Secret when I normally had nothing to do. So I made up my mind that I was going to start using The Secret again. I began to pretend every day that I was on my computer, tv, and Playstation 2. But there was a problem – even if I was pretending I had what I wanted, my mum was thinking in her mind, ‘Andrea is punished’. Me and my mum thought two opposite things, and in The Secret book it does not tell you about what woud manifest if two peaple think difrent. But I still used The Secret each day to get what I want. I did not know how it would happen. I mean, it’s not like my mum would forget my punishment…

But a while into my punishment I was proved wrong, because a very strange thing happened. One afternoon I was talking to my mum when she said that I am not punished from computer, and I never was. But I can remember her saying that I was banned from computer. In other words SHE DID FORGET MY PUNISHMENT. And it got better – my mum now lets me wutch DVDs, and my mum got a Nintendo Wii and I can go on it. So I don’t care if I’m punished from playstation 2 becouse a Wii is almost the same.