A Time I Regret - Austin Cottingham

One of the times I most regret was when I never had any confidence and was a pushover last year. Last year around November and December I would always just sit on the porch and mope around. You could call it a minor form of depression or lethargy, but either way it was not fun. I would just sit and watch the street and birds for hours, and it would feel like months basking in the cold, thinking about how life was not fair. A little time after that I ended up getting worse, making me not want to care about mostly anything. Friends started to drift and my grades started to slip making the experience worse. This was because of my terrible stepfather and school social life. I decided that I would take up exercising because of the abundance of time I was gifted. I started to workout and was delt swift criticism and judgment by my stepfather. Although there was one person that kept with me throughout the whole time that I wanted to get healthy. That special person was my grandpa, or the cat as we call him. That was one of the ways I got out of that grey and gloomy place. If I hadn't started working out who knows what would have happened to me otherwise.