Situations like birthdays or holidays, deaths and times of stress, and vacations and school occurrences all make me who I am now. One such occurrence has changed my life in ways I never thought I would have to accept and deal with.
It was earlier this year when the world as I knew it came to a crashing end. With graduation only weeks away, the first girl I had ever had feelings for – one of the few people I believed I could trust – went through a completely spontaneous transformation almost overnight and broke it off with me. I was a wreck for quite some time…I began blaming myself intrapersonally which didn’t make it any better, not did it ameliorate the pain. I had to put this difficult event aside as graduation approached and try to move on to what was coming up in the months ahead – the biggest time of change I would ever see. I turned out to be wrong and right at the same time. College wouldn’t be the biggest change I would have to face.
Graduation came and went, and soon afterward my Aunt began having terrible headaches and was unable to drive. My Mom took her to the hospital where, to everyone’s shock, they found a malignant tumor on her brain. In that one instance the most promising year of my life became the worst it could be. My closest relative had brain cancer and to top it all off, I was heartbroken, miserable, and alone.
I spent the next two months inside of my house taking care of my Aunt’s two dogs whilst my Dad spent the days out on business and my Mom at the hospital keeping my Aunt company. I don’t think I went outside during that entire period and not once did I see any friends. How could I? They all had left for college and my best friend Erik was on tour with his Drum Corps. My only way of communicating with people was online and the only way I could get things was through eBay.
By this time, interpersonal communication was nearly non-existent to me. Completely emotionally broken down, I had virtually nobody other than my parents to help guide me through the stress and grief that came out of nowhere for no reason. I came to deal with the internal grief and communicate with myself.