CARPE DIEM it all started the day i turned 9 years old i felt more mature than the rest more logical even destined to succeed. at least that’s what they told me “study hard get good grades don’t make too many friends don’t invite trouble focus on your own life” they said, i followed then came middle school new faces friends opportunities for better and for worse i tried to tune life out focus on myself, but it was calling out my name. it told me i wasn’t cut out to
This summer, I found myself going through a phase of seasonal depression —summer depression to be exact— but the motive behind it was quite different than what I had expected. Rather than feeling that familiarly anonymous and inexplicable boredom, or feeling like my chest was a hot air balloon or an enclosed bedroom with no air ventilation on a sunny summer afternoon, I was outrageously stressed. In the days before this feeling, I dove deep into the internet-provided resource