well... i got my report card yesterday, and i'm pleased to say that i have narrowly escaped failing english and single-handedly pushed that D- to a C+ thanks to my excellent lord of the flies paper! other than english, i've done decent in my other classes; despite the fact i got a C- in algebra, but then again, i've had a history of difficulty with math... :/

secondly, new moon is coming out tomorrow, WHICH IS ALSO MY 17th BIRTHDAY! 8D so to celebrate, i'm going out with my best friend to see it opening day and go out for dinner.

not only is my birthday the opening day for new moon, but it will also be my one year anniversary of when i decided to stop cutting and start recovering:
Ever since junior high, i've had a history of depression which dragged on to my freshman year and the dawn of my sophomore year of high school. in seventh grade, the one girl who seemed to be my only friend at the time was absent in my life and in the eighth grade, i was so heart-broken that i started cutting myself. i was sent to therapy, which helped me stop cutting for a few months until in the ninth grade when i was involved in a toxic infatuation with who seemed to be the only boy who understood me. after he showed me his true colors, i fell into my relapse, and even reached the point of considering suicide. i thought that this grief would never end, until my sixteenth birthday last year. a group of my friends threw a big party for me. none of my friends had ever done anything that nice to me before. but here's the kicker: now that i turned sixteen, it meant that more opportunities were open for me (driving, legally consenting to sex, etc...), but that wouldn't have occurred to me if one of my friends in the group told me, "Yay! you can finally consent to sex now! " after listening to what he said, it was all one painful slap in the face for me. i had come to realize that all those years i was trying to end my life, i was living an empty and hollow life. now that i was sixteen, i was able to live life to the fullest as i should. also, i should be pretty damn lucky that i was alive at that point because some kids who were depressed like me were so consumed by their sadness, that they failed to see that the key to being happy is living life to the fullest before they took their lives. in a nutshell, if my friend never mentioned the opportunities that are now open to me, i highly doubt that i would be alive today. so i want to thank him, for not only pointing out how much i have to live for, but for also saving my life. i am grateful that i am alive today and that i am finally able to reconnect with my absent seventh grade friend, finally showed my former crush who's boss, and have met so many wonderful friends on dA like you. :]

I love you all,
Paige

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