“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
- Leo Tolstoy
I changed everything over the course of a summer.
Leaving Junior High, I was a borderline outcast. I was practicing all the wrong behaviors to make friends, and didn’t have much to fall back on by way of looks or personality. I could count my friends on a single hand, and even those four people were not very close to me. It had been a lonely and semi-desperate ride, and I knew something had to change. Fortunately, I lived in a neighborhood that ensured very few of my junior high classmates would be attending the same high school.