I am not intending on editing these heavily. This is just a place where I am going to throw my thoughts about my life into a literary abyss. I've been asked in the past about writing in non-fiction, but frankly, something about selling my life that way is too unsettling. I have a hard enough time processing it on my own without commodifying it. That's a shortcoming. 

Where does someone even start with things they remember about their life? 'Oh, I was born between where the canola meets the highway...' Not for me. I was born. Chapter One: complete. Then I was a kid for a number of years. I had a bad bowl haircut and ugly glasses. I wanted to hang out with the boys because I grew up with two brothers and knew more words from slaps and hits than I'd ever heard Barbie say. So, I had stupid mini-sticks, beyblades, and rode a cheap mountain bike because I thought the spring shock looked cool. What's that? Chapters two - three? There's probably something juicy in there for sure. Maybe I'll revisit it. 

Eventually, though, I was too old for conservative mothers to let me hang out with the boys. Sleepovers were cancelled. Boys stopped shoving me. Suddenly, I didn't have any friends, really. Except for the girls who had crushes on the boys that I used to be friends with. That was a strange transition to make. Isn't so-and-so just so dreamy? Well, no, actually. He ate a whole can of tuna the other day and threw up what might as well have been cat food. 

This transition sucked, honestly. I got used to boys just looking at you and saying you had shit on your face. Then, I didn't have my ears pierced. Asian eyes apparently don't line as well with eyeliner as other races. Wrestling over a problem was definitely not the answer, and who is getting excited to have a period? Let's call that Chapters 4-8.

Hey, this is turning into an outline. 

I don't think I ever adjusted. I did make some remarkable friends. Beautiful women who, to this day, make my life a more beautiful place. 

I started to drift into adulthood. And then deleted it. That's enough for this.