When we are kids we are taught to honor our parents, to obey them. As an introvert and someone who doesn't like confrontation, this was always easy for me. I spent the first 17 years of my life doing everything my parents asked of me.
While other kids were out partying, drinking, and hooking up I was at home studying and reading. It's not like I had many friends anyways. I was not what you would call popular and had only ever had two real friends.
By the time my senior year came around my classmates knew me as the shy girl. No besides my best friend Rae ever really talked to me and it's not like ever really tried either.
What was the point of befriending people when they would just leave you? Letting people in meant giving them the opportunity to hurt you and I just couldn't bring myself to do that again.
This is until the night of my 18th birthday two weeks after graduation.
