As the days persist, and she looked into the mirror resting against her wardrobe, she seemed to recognize less and less about the person she saw standing before her. Her exterior might display a more put together and successful form of herself. But the inside, the inside was beaten down, her heart now rusty, confidence nearly nonexistent, and the pride that she once held- that was certainly no longer there.

At one point she was a young girl who held numerous opportunities in the palm of her hands. In spite of this, those opportunities had long since departed. For those adolescent years had gotten the best of her. Oh yes, they had sucked her in and then spit her out on the other side of the spectrum; and in a matter of 25 months she had become the complete opposite of what she had once been. She was now lucky if she could snag a job at the Burger Barn where all those high school drop outs and white-powder addicts worked. But wait, she was one of them. Wasn’t she? She had become exactly what parents warn their young to never become.