plagiarism thoughts

My definition of plagiarism would be stealing another person’s words and work and using it as their own without the creator receiving credit or knowing. All of my life I have been taught that plagiarism was the worst sin when it came to writing essays. I 100% agree with why plagiarism is not allowed under any circumstances. It would be so disappointing if my hard work was stolen by another individual and used as their own without me receiving credit. I have heard of many cases where students were expelled from school because of this issue. In all of my previous classes, my teachers constantly stressed at the beginning of the year that plagiarism was in no way, shape or form acceptable. After they set down the rules and the consequences (sent to the office and have administration and the teacher handle it), we would only talk about plagiarism every once in a while. Whenever I submitted an essay in English class, my teacher would remind us all that she was going to be using a plagiarism checker. This checker leads into my concern about plagiarism. Even if the content that is written is 100% my own thoughts and words, the checker can still read that there is a large amount of plagiarism involved simply because they are thoughts that millions of people write all the time. My worry would be getting in trouble for having my own content that I created myself and having the checker say that I stole it just because several other people just so happen to have the same combination of thoughts.