As I entered Grade 9, with a real smile and a personality many favoured, I saw the ones with perfect stories, louder laughs, and Instagrams that drew attention like magnets.
Two roads stood in front of me in silence.
Be myself and just live life simply, or try to be cool like them.
Robert Frost once said, "... And that has made all the difference" but failed to mention about the difference that can break you.
Crush you.
Destroy you.
As I changed my entire personality and became a midnight swiper, I started to fly off the ground, not realising I was burning the bridges to myself.
It took a year and a half, and a soul I barely recognise, to realise - I chased a version of me that never existed, and lost the one that did...