The years slowly rolled by—, one after another. I couldn't bare to think of all that I’d done so I tried putting all the negativities out of my mind. Good friends would come over during those in-between chapters of my life. “Don’t go to the dark side,” they’d say to me whenever seeing me intently staring off into the distance, not focused on anything in- particular. I’d try to snap back into the moment, to not let what was keeping me from enjoying life take hold and drag me down once more. My mom would come home from work and see me still laying in bed on my days off.