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for me i think it would be when i finally moved away to school...
i was sheltered as a child, and growing up there were so many things i didn't know about. when i moved away from my parents, and the small town i grew up in i learned so much about the world. i had everything i needed, and came from you stereotypical American family- parents happily married, white picket fence, golden retrievers, a strong sense of family, and the feeling that all the "bad stuff" i would see on the news was a world away...
it wasn't until college that i learned what simple things like "layaway" were. i think i also lost it when an older girl played me.... there was this girl from a certain sorority on campus who i got to know from another girl in her house. anyway, we had some fun, but then i started to fall for her. i thought she liked me too, but when she never returned my calls, and acted like i didn't exists i knew...
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